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What I liked about AIM was that it was predominately only 1:1 chat (high signal-to-noise ratio). What I dislike about Slack is that it makes it way too easy to
by tiffanyh 4y ago
What I liked about AIM was that it was predominately only 1:1 chat (high signal-to-noise ratio).
What I dislike about Slack is that it makes it way too easy to create new (group) Channel and then the signal-to-noise ratio drops off a cliff.
Maybe this is just a function of where I've worked and used Slack, but most of the chatting is happening in group Channels, not 1:1.
- eddieroger 4y agoThis is a really fantastic point, especially considering Slack lets you just get pulled in to something without accepting the invite or consenting to join. I prefer properly run chat channels over DMs (knowledge silos are bad), but the fact that Slack would let someone create a room, invite you to it, and start `@channel` blasting at any time is wild. At least we get the ability to snooze notifications based on time, I guess.
- flatiron 4y agoYou can mute channels too. I have a ton of “ask” slack channels for the various things I’m considered a SME on that I simply mute. If I have a free minute I’ll drop in and share some stuff but I can’t be answering those things all the time.
- deckard1 4y agomute sucks. It still puts the channel on the bottom and I'm the type of OCD idiot that gets annoyed by any unread messages. I really really really want /ignore. Because often I need to be in a channel but the powers that be add lots of spam bots to the channel in a misguided attempt at being "helpful". My morning struggle is opening Slack and clearing out dozens of bot messages across dozens of channels. I just want to banish these bots to /dev/null. Permanently. They provide zero value to me or, dare I say, anyone else. But the people that assume a daily flood of garbage information = more productivity have won the war.