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Slack is about to become a nightmare

26 points by dpeck 6y ago

jquaint 6y ago
> Slack is about to become a nightmare > On Wednesday, the company made good on that promise by opening Slack Connect DMs for anyone currently paying for their Slack subscription. So where is the nightmare? I was expecting at least some analysis on why this is a bad thing.
- dragontamer 6y ago
  This has to be some kind of joke-headline. I know the Gizmodo group has a weird sense of humor.
- znpy 6y ago
  the articles from the same authors look pretty much on the same line, catchy click-bait titles
- lljk_kennedy 6y ago
  Maybe nightmare is a bit extreme, but it does seem open to abuse: https://twitter.com/44/status/1374737695444901891 https://twitter.com/44/status/1374737695444901891
  - Bedon292 6y ago
    That does seem quite bad. The article probably should have lead with that. I also don't want random recruiting firms trying to invite me to DM them on Slack all day long. They fill up my inbox enough as it is. Just another avenue for spam. Hopefully they will have a report spam and shut down the abusers fast. But seems they haven't thought that far ahead yet.
  - paxys 6y ago
    Meh, there are a million easier ways than this to email someone a bad word (that too fully anonymously, which this isn't), so not sure why this is such a big deal.
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systemvoltage 6y ago
The technology exists for communicating anyone over the internet - its called email and we've done 20 years of work to prevent spam.
- danaliv 6y ago
  My email is useless. It's become so clogged with automated notifications that I legitimately can't sift out the useful stuff. I can barely even manage to reliably find all the messages sent by actual humans. I've tried everything I can think of, to no avail. No combination of configurations, rules, or filtering fixes this problem for longer than a week. Even if I do manage to turn the eighty gazillion auto-emailing systems down to a dull roar, somehow they manage to ramp themselves back up again. The problem with email isn't email, it's that we've tried to make it do double-duty as a communications medium and a push notification system. These are different things and they shouldn't be in the same stream. As much as I dislike Slack, et al. for being just another distraction I have to check and keep up with, they did manage to isolate communications from the noise for a little while. Of course, because we can't help ourselves, on day two everyone started writing Slack bots to channel notifications into the chat.
  - anaerobicover 6y ago
    Perhaps having your own email domain and therefore many accounts would be a solution? A secondary problem with email is that businesses/web services (free greeting cards, etc.) encourage friends and family to sign you up for junk mail. But I have no idea how to fix that.
    - danaliv 6y ago
      Can’t send work email to my personal account, so that’s out.
- freewilly1040 6y ago
  The spammers have been at work for 20 years as well. Not exactly a success story.
ncmncm 6y ago
Impossible! It cannot become what it already is.
anaerobicover 6y ago
And now it's already been rolled back. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22348743/slack-connect-dm-abuse-harassment-disable-message-invite-response https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22348743/slack-connect-dm...
weitzj 6y ago
Did paying customers ask for this feature?
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26 points by dpeck 6y ago

> Slack is about to become a nightmare > On Wednesday, the company made good on that promise by opening Slack Connect DMs for anyone currently paying for their Slack subscription. So where is the nightmare? I was expecting at least some analysis on why this is a bad thing.

dragontamer 6y ago
This has to be some kind of joke-headline. I know the Gizmodo group has a weird sense of humor.
znpy 6y ago
the articles from the same authors look pretty much on the same line, catchy click-bait titles
lljk_kennedy 6y ago
Maybe nightmare is a bit extreme, but it does seem open to abuse: https://twitter.com/44/status/1374737695444901891 https://twitter.com/44/status/1374737695444901891
- Bedon292 6y ago
  That does seem quite bad. The article probably should have lead with that. I also don't want random recruiting firms trying to invite me to DM them on Slack all day long. They fill up my inbox enough as it is. Just another avenue for spam. Hopefully they will have a report spam and shut down the abusers fast. But seems they haven't thought that far ahead yet.
- paxys 6y ago
  Meh, there are a million easier ways than this to email someone a bad word (that too fully anonymously, which this isn't), so not sure why this is such a big deal.

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systemvoltage 6y ago

The technology exists for communicating anyone over the internet - its called email and we've done 20 years of work to prevent spam.

danaliv 6y ago
My email is useless. It's become so clogged with automated notifications that I legitimately can't sift out the useful stuff. I can barely even manage to reliably find all the messages sent by actual humans. I've tried everything I can think of, to no avail. No combination of configurations, rules, or filtering fixes this problem for longer than a week. Even if I do manage to turn the eighty gazillion auto-emailing systems down to a dull roar, somehow they manage to ramp themselves back up again. The problem with email isn't email, it's that we've tried to make it do double-duty as a communications medium and a push notification system. These are different things and they shouldn't be in the same stream. As much as I dislike Slack, et al. for being just another distraction I have to check and keep up with, they did manage to isolate communications from the noise for a little while. Of course, because we can't help ourselves, on day two everyone started writing Slack bots to channel notifications into the chat.
- anaerobicover 6y ago
  Perhaps having your own email domain and therefore many accounts would be a solution? A secondary problem with email is that businesses/web services (free greeting cards, etc.) encourage friends and family to sign you up for junk mail. But I have no idea how to fix that.
  - danaliv 6y ago
    Can’t send work email to my personal account, so that’s out.
freewilly1040 6y ago
The spammers have been at work for 20 years as well. Not exactly a success story.

ncmncm 6y ago

Impossible! It cannot become what it already is.

anaerobicover 6y ago

And now it's already been rolled back. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22348743/slack-connect-dm-abuse-harassment-disable-message-invite-response https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22348743/slack-connect-dm...

weitzj 6y ago

Did paying customers ask for this feature?

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