I love email. It's the exclusive way we communicate at our company, too. We almost use it like Slack, writing short messages, usually getting a response pretty

I love email. It's the exclusive way we communicate at our company, too. We almost use it like Slack, writing short messages, usually getting a response pretty immediately. For group discussions, we use plain old mailing lists (Topicbox from Fastmail currently). It's not perfect, for sure, but: 1. You can use a client of your choice. 2. You can filter in any way you like. 3. You're not stuck with any particular provider, and migration is not a big deal. 4. You can organise things in a way that works for you (inbox zero etc.), I find that a lot easier than the typical notifications. 5. It comes with all kinds of "integrations", e.g. GitLab comments can just be responded to via email, which I use a ton when on the go. A CI failure, customer question etc you can just forward to discuss it. When set up reasonably, it's the one communication channel you need. It takes some discipline and self organisation, but I haven't heard about developers hating email. I think there's a ton of reasons not to hate it. Is it non-trivial to use well? Sure. Do others use it in questionable ways? Sure. The same is true for Slack and all that as well. But I can't think of anything that I found easier to manage at the end of the day.