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Why would an asynchronous messaging platform worry about real-time messaging? It seems rather counter to what the platform is meant for.

• nomel 3y ago
  > It seems rather counter to what the platform is meant for. Well that's just silly, if you've ever used used slack. It's corporate chat rooms, with real-time chat being a fundamental feature of it. > counter to what the platform is meant for. The platform is meant for communication. Async communication is one (probably smallish, at least in my experience) slice of that.
  • pc86 3y ago
    No you don't understand, the GP uses Slack asynchronously so if you don't use Slack asynchronously you're doing it wrong.
    • candiddevmike 3y ago
      I wonder if slack engineering and it's users would benefit from tick/queue based messaging vs real time. Say messages are only exchanged every minute.
      • nomel 3y ago
        > Say messages are only exchanged every minute. One of the primary uses for slack, in our org, is live support. Having people sitting around, waiting for timers to expire, could never be a benefit for us.
      • pc86 3y ago
        Why would that be at all beneficial? "We have this very successful, fairly technically advanced as-real-time-as-is-practicable messaging system that most of our users use for real-time communication. We spent large amounts of engineering resources, time, and money to make it not real-time."