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last time I used it, Slack had a pretty bad design flaw. each organization has a #general channel that cannot be unsubscribed from (aka, every person in the co
by rockshassa 12y ago
last time I used it, Slack had a pretty bad design flaw.
each organization has a #general channel that cannot be unsubscribed from (aka, every person in the company must be part of #general). it got very annoying when users spammed (@channel) the entire channel. many devs on my team sent feedback to Slack asking them for the ability to leave #general.
Their response was something like "we rely on everyone being in #general so that we have a single place to deliver broadcast messages"
This leads me to believe that their underlying code does not really have a concept of a user's 'organization', otherwise they could send based on that. Separate those concerns!
- dmarg 12y agoWhy is this such a big deal? You can turn off the notifications for the #general channel. So why not just turn off the notifications for that channel or use the "Only when mentioned or one of my Highlight Words is used (default)" option?
- ClifReeder 12y agoWe used to have this problem, but I think Slack added a feature to fix this. Our general room is now locked so that people can't post into it, but everyone is still a member.
- gregbarbosa 12y agoI feared this, but also figured if someone is spamming the channel, then it's time to talk to them about understanding how the product is meant to work and that spamming doesn't help anybody.
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