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Around a certain age one's tolerance for such bullshit goes to zero. Discord, slack, et al would be doing the world a great service if their tools had notifica
by gjvc 5y ago
Around a certain age one's tolerance for such bullshit goes to zero.
Discord, slack, et al would be doing the world a great service if their tools had notifications etc SWITCHED OFF BY DEFAULT so that they don't disturb other people in the same room as the user. Such notifications are designed to break your concentration / get your attention, but they have the toxic side-effect of polluting the environment of other people physically around the user, by breaking their concentration / getting their attention.
Being in the same open-plan hellscape as people using Slack means having to wonder who the hell thinks it's ok to be using a tool which makes 'knock-knock-knock' noises, and having to be that guy who goes around asking people to silence their shit. Yes, this is a human problem, but don't tell me the product designers didn't consider this. Either they did, and chose to leave it on by default or they didn't. Both betray a certain contempt for the user.
Another point for working from home is that one cannot easily distract others.
- ec109685 5y agoI’m old too and use slack without any notifications or sound. I just am in a habit of checking it frequently during the day. I too have never been able to get into Discord, nor ever been able to participate in multiple slack organizations effectively.
- dijonman2 5y agoAmen. I have all sounds and notifications disabled on all devices. I own the device. The device doesn’t own me. What pisses me off about slack is it’s actively user hostile. With notifications off it won’t let me mute channels. I’d like to meet the asshole from their product team who designed that.
- wtetzner 5y agoThe first thing I tend to do when I join a new Discord server is mute it.
- beebeepka 5y agoI am also old but unable to relate at all because I don't think I've ever worked without headphones. Home or at the office.
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- tekknik 5y ago> Discord, slack, et al would be doing the world a great service if their tools had notifications etc SWITCHED OFF BY DEFAULT so that they don't disturb other people in the same room as the user. This is a fun one. What if the new hire doesn’t know Slack? They’ll miss all the messages until figure out how to configure their notifications. Or we leave them on by default and then still tell them how to configure their notifications. There’s no magical way to determine the users preferred setting. You also can’t do something like leave it on for mentions only, as sometimes you need to be in a conversation you were tagged in. A better solution is to use a hammer on their volume buttons. Or buy a nice pair of noise canceling headphones. Many of us have tried for many years to complain our way out of open plan offices, with no luck.
- 1_player 5y ago> What if the new hire doesn’t know Slack? They’ll miss all the messages until figure out how to configure their notifications In my experience, the "new hires" are overwhelmed by Slack notifications, turn them off, and I have to remind them later, after they failed to respond to semi-urgent public @ and direct messages, that they can configure Slack to be notify only on @ and direct messages, and they won't be bothered by regular chit-chatter on public channels. It's happened to me with at least 4 people it can't be a coincidence.
- tekknik 5y agoThen again you still miss conversations you weren’t tagged in.