Slack is for synchronous shallow short form communication. It is great for communicating around an event. Getting quick in-flow queries answered. Asking what p

Slack is for synchronous shallow short form communication. It is great for communicating around an event. Getting quick in-flow queries answered. Asking what people want to do for lunch. It is not for substantial nuanced in depth communication. When used this way it quickly becomes a conveyor belt of distracting trash. It is also not a knowledge repository or source of truth. Slack overflow is not a good practice. Pro tip: have slack history clear after 60 days. Better alternatives: - Shared Google Doc with comments for analyzing an issue - Meetings with a pre-read period and memo and clear purpose/outcome for the meeting - Pair programming - Live code review TL;DR Dont use slack.