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You're comment made me think about why we actually use slack/IM when email is just as capable and I think the answer is that I can have notifications turned on
by SilverRed 5y ago
You're comment made me think about why we actually use slack/IM when email is just as capable and I think the answer is that I can have notifications turned on for IM and I can't do that for email. Which means I respond much slower to email.
IM is one of the last places on the internet not filled with automated crap, advertisers and spam. And to be fair, some of that automated crap I actually want and browse through at a later time but IM explicitly separates real time messages and newsletters.
- tofukid 5y agoEmail supports instant notifications, via your provider’s app or IMAP IDLE. I use Fastmail and get push notifications for email the instant it is received.
- SilverRed 5y agoThe point is if I turned on instant notifications I would go insane because they would never stop. I receive lots of emails and a lot of them are not very important or at least not urgent. While every IM I receive is something I at least want to glance at now.
- selfhoster11 5y agoThat point, frankly, applies to some Slack workspaces too. Some of them just have too many notifications to keep track of.
- tofukid 5y agoEmail notifications are flexible. I can choose to receive notifications only from contacts, search terms, or specific people.