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As well people using @channel gets tiresome when you're on vacation and slack is on your phone.
Basically slack is noisy in my situation, i wonder if for many?
Torn on this one. I'm sympathetic because of how the OP complains that he's been pulled into Slack because of its popularity. I don't think being virally popular is a demerit -- sometimes popular things are popular because they are good -- but the trade off comes when bystanders are forced into the hivemind if they want to do things that previously didn't require that hot-app-du-jour. And I've only used Slack as a so…
Actually, maybe you should try Slack in earnest with a project team before assuming the OP criticisms are wacked. I tried it with my team about a year ago, and all of the OP criticisms resonate with me. We don't use Slack anymore.
Also because chat is so informal, everyone posts needlessly (shoot from the hip with no consideration for whether you're wasting someones' time)
One solution is the judicious use of @ (in Hipchat at least). People should also consider chat to be informal mail rather than chat when you're in the office.
My main gripe with slack is the abuses. At my company its mostly a water cooler or a way to break the headphones contract. As well people using @channel gets tiresome when you're on vacation and slack is on your phone. Basically slack is noisy in my situation, i wonder if for many?
If you're focusing on something you can put slack in "Do Not Disturb" mode for a desired amount of time.
I'm usually in 50 IRC channels at once. My workflow when I open irc is to check my hilight window for pings, and then glance at the channel list for backscroll chatter in channels I follow closely (if bored, also look at chatter in other channels). I then respond to things, and switch back to the hilight window. I occasionally glance at this window to check for more pings and chatter in said channels. Each check is a quick glance, and can be done without context-switching.
I am in a bunch of slack teams, but I only really care about one channel in each. It takes much longer to handle these, since I need to open a tab for each, and if I've been pinged go look for the ping.
IRC sucks, but at least everything is in one place. I'd be far more productive with slack if there was a unified app for all teams with a dedicated notifications panel.
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For me the first part that you agree with as well is the kicker. Slack has started eating the world, but the fact that it has only partially succeeded makes it feel way more painful. My gaming groups are on slack. Various (discontinuous) work groups are on slack. Various open source groups are on slack. But not _everything_; meaning either I have to have yet another desktop app (call me a curmudgeon but I really like…
I'm surprised your gaming groups are on Slack, given that Discord is basically a Slack clone that's geared specifically for gaming and seems to be really popular. Edit: Discourse -> Discord
Why do I need to create a new account for each slack team I want to join? I am the same person.
Joining a slack team should be an entitlement that gets granted to my identity -not an entirely separate account.
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For me the first part that you agree with as well is the kicker. Slack has started eating the world, but the fact that it has only partially succeeded makes it feel way more painful. My gaming groups are on slack. Various (discontinuous) work groups are on slack. Various open source groups are on slack. But not _everything_; meaning either I have to have yet another desktop app (call me a curmudgeon but I really like…
I'm surprised your gaming groups are on Slack, given that Discord is basically a Slack clone that's geared specifically for gaming and seems to be really popular. Edit: Discourse -> Discord