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I like the Slack = open office analogy. One thing that drives me nuts with apps like MS Teams is there is no way to throttle notifications and I have to consta

I like the Slack = open office analogy. One thing that drives me nuts with apps like MS Teams is there is no way to throttle notifications and I have to constantly mute/unmute chats/people. Some of my peers have a hard time communicating in complete sentences and instead send a constant stream of word pellets. This gets really distracting as you then get a barrage of notifications. It would be great if I only got a notification every X minutes.

celeritascelery 3y ago
> Some of my peers have a hard time communicating in complete sentences and instead send a constant stream of word pellets. I never had a word for this, but word pellets is perfect. You get pinged by someone (breaking your train of thought and forcing a context switch) and then have wait for them to send you 10 messages to get their thought across.
- whstl 3y ago
  I abide by this rule here: https://www.nohello.com/ https://www.nohello.com/ Older than the hills, but some people still need to be shown. I personally don't care much when people do this to me, tho. I just use Slack asynchronously, so I will take up to 30 minutes to answer the first hello, and then 30 minutes to answer the question. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    If I haven't messaged a person for a long while, I'll say "hello". I just can't bring myself not to do it. But what I don't do is make it a separate message from the one I really want to send (as that web page suggests). So it's like "Hi Joe! I need to find out about <x>. Can you help me?"
JohnFen 3y ago
> MS Teams is there is no way to throttle notifications and I have to constantly mute/unmute chats/people. I have disabled all notifications entirely because of how disruptive they are (not only from Teams, but from all applications). Now I just remember to check the little light on the Teams tray icon when I have space to handle chats.

celeritascelery 3y ago

> Some of my peers have a hard time communicating in complete sentences and instead send a constant stream of word pellets. I never had a word for this, but word pellets is perfect. You get pinged by someone (breaking your train of thought and forcing a context switch) and then have wait for them to send you 10 messages to get their thought across.

whstl 3y ago
I abide by this rule here: https://www.nohello.com/ https://www.nohello.com/ Older than the hills, but some people still need to be shown. I personally don't care much when people do this to me, tho. I just use Slack asynchronously, so I will take up to 30 minutes to answer the first hello, and then 30 minutes to answer the question. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- JohnFen 3y ago
  If I haven't messaged a person for a long while, I'll say "hello". I just can't bring myself not to do it. But what I don't do is make it a separate message from the one I really want to send (as that web page suggests). So it's like "Hi Joe! I need to find out about <x>. Can you help me?"

JohnFen 3y ago

> MS Teams is there is no way to throttle notifications and I have to constantly mute/unmute chats/people. I have disabled all notifications entirely because of how disruptive they are (not only from Teams, but from all applications). Now I just remember to check the little light on the Teams tray icon when I have space to handle chats.