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Ask HN: How many Slack messages do you send/receive outside working hours?
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Re: Ask HN: How many Slack messages do you send/receive outside working hours?
#2If they gotta reach me when I am off they send a text.
Re: Ask HN: How many Slack messages do you send/receive outside working hours?
#3A fair amount (maybe 15-20% of messages) since I'm on the east coast and my company is on the west coast. I don't feel obligated to reply if its outside of working hours though.
Re: Ask HN: How many Slack messages do you send/receive outside working hours?
#4Quite a few, but that’s just because I have friend groups who use Slack.
Discord would probably be better since Slack’s pricing favors business use. We lose our old messages on the free version of Slack, but the all-or-nothing per-user monthly cost of a paid version prohibits our group from upgrading. You either upgrade everyone in the group or upgrade nobody.
The way that Discord’s premium features are based on an individual person’s willingness to pay rather than the entire organization is definitely a better model for personal use.
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#6I have no clue because I have Slack muted after 5pm.
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#7During COVID WFH, probably 20-30 per day. I didn't think it was a big deal since I had extra flexibility with my time during work hours. I eventually understood that I was blurring the lines between work and life. Now that I'm back in the office, I don't have Slack or my work email on my personal devices at all and I feel better for it.
Re: Ask HN: How many Slack messages do you send/receive outside working hours?
#8None. I don’t have slack on my personal devices. And I shut down the work laptop at the end of day.
Re: Ask HN: How many Slack messages do you send/receive outside working hours?
#90. If I absolutely "have" to send something, I schedule it for working hours.
I also don't have Slack installed on any personal devices. If I "have" to send something I'll install Slack and then delete it right after.
More often though I'll just email my work address with the message I want to send and then take care of it the next day.
Re: Ask HN: How many Slack messages do you send/receive outside working hours?
#10Zero. Notifications disabled outside of biz hours. There will always be a job, living life only happens once. Family, loved ones, and friends will miss you and you being in the moment with them, your job will slot another cog into the machine without skipping a beat.