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Re: Ask HN: Why do people love Slack?

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boublepop wrote: post #32

Dear gruglife, I write this comment as a response to your inquiry about the reasons for why people like slack. Now personally I mostly use Teams, but the system is similar. The reason I like to use Teams as opposed to e-mail is mostly just the expected process around it. Please note that I’ve cc’ed your manager, as I talked to him just before and he told me to add him. I’m not trying to seem passive aggressive or cau…

@boublepop good day

are you around

can you explain to me how this comm style isn't also annoying pls

?

dropped VOIP call

@channel can anyone else help me with this

Re: Ask HN: Why do people love Slack?

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Post by boublepop »

notahacker wrote: post #71
boublepop wrote: post #32

Dear gruglife, I write this comment as a response to your inquiry about the reasons for why people like slack. Now personally I mostly use Teams, but the system is similar. The reason I like to use Teams as opposed to e-mail is mostly just the expected process around it. Please note that I’ve cc’ed your manager, as I talked to him just before and he told me to add him. I’m not trying to seem passive aggressive or cau…

@boublepop good day are you around can you explain to me how this comm style isn't also annoying pls ? dropped VOIP call @channel can anyone else help me with this

I can’t explain to you why you find it annoying. I honestly don’t. What’s annoying about asking people if they are around? Or asking a question in a channel?

Re: Ask HN: Why do people love Slack?

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Post by buboard »

smclaughlin wrote: post #51

If you don’t understand why people love Slack, then you don’t understand what usable enterprise software means or why people love it. Imagine how many people never used a chat app in a business context before. Maybe this is hard, as you can’t imagine who they could be — or you don’t remember a time _before_ the ubiquity of chat apps in the workplace. But trust me those people are a majority of the workforce. Now imag…

Slack didnt invent messaging. Skype was and is ubiquitous. Apparently slack is an incremental improvement

Re: Ask HN: Why do people love Slack?

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Post by buboard »

elwesties wrote: post #25

I suspect much of the hate for slack is from two types of people. Those who are too young to know the tyranny of email and those who used to ignore their email. As to why it’s so popular, it was the first good business chat solution that went mainstream. And I still haven’t seen another that matches it’s quality

I don't use slack but what 's wrong with email? Slow , long form responses is a feature, not a bug in our lines of business. Maybe customer service people do need an instant messengers, but the rest?

Re: Ask HN: Why do people love Slack?

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Post by lol636363 »

smclaughlin wrote: post #51

If you don’t understand why people love Slack, then you don’t understand what usable enterprise software means or why people love it. Imagine how many people never used a chat app in a business context before. Maybe this is hard, as you can’t imagine who they could be — or you don’t remember a time _before_ the ubiquity of chat apps in the workplace. But trust me those people are a majority of the workforce. Now imag…

Pretty much every developer I know hates slack. They use it because it is required of them.

It is a great tool for non-doers to slack off with though. You can pretend like you are working by posting funny pics, random thoughts, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Why do people love Slack?

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Post by lol636363 »

boublepop wrote: post #72
notahacker wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@boublepop good day are you around can you explain to me how this comm style isn't also annoying pls ? dropped VOIP call @channel can anyone else help me with this

I can’t explain to you why you find it annoying. I honestly don’t. What’s annoying about asking people if they are around? Or asking a question in a channel?

Maybe in your org people are better communicators. In mine, Slack gets in the way of deep work. Then you turn off notifications and eventually your manager asks you why you are not on Slack.

So you end up reading memes, news, answering same question 100th time, and you realize you are just glorified assembly worker. You are not solving real problems, just making another distraction for your primate family. You are a monkey!

Re: Ask HN: Why do people love Slack?

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

hiccuphippo wrote: post #65
reilly3000 wrote: post #53

Slack is hard to leave. I work on a 100% remote team- it is our office. Few of us have met in person, there just isn't budget for travel. Therefore all of our emotional connections with each, all of our work-life are built atop the Slack (and Zoom) UI. That's a hard thing to replatform. Slack also almost never falls down. Its remarkably fast, the search is fast and faceted, and they manage cross-device notification s…

There's another, unofficial, client for slack that I know of but I've never tried it: https://volt-app.com/

> What language is Volt written in? V. It's a new language I created to develop Volt. You can read about it here.

What could possibly go wrong.

Re: Ask HN: Why do people love Slack?

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

buboard wrote: post #73
smclaughlin wrote: post #51

If you don’t understand why people love Slack, then you don’t understand what usable enterprise software means or why people love it. Imagine how many people never used a chat app in a business context before. Maybe this is hard, as you can’t imagine who they could be — or you don’t remember a time _before_ the ubiquity of chat apps in the workplace. But trust me those people are a majority of the workforce. Now imag…

Slack didnt invent messaging. Skype was and is ubiquitous. Apparently slack is an incremental improvement

Skype was revolutionary, but has since devolved into a hot mess.

Re: Ask HN: Why do people love Slack?

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

netsharc wrote: post #41
NZ_Matt wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get this, but often it results in 10+ messages back and forward when really what I want is one nice succinct email with only what's important and no pressure for me drop everything and reply immediately. I haven't looked, but is it possible to change your online status on a room by room basis?

Probably not, Slack is even more obnoxious than that, I installed the app on my phone, but didn't want my phone buzzing all the time, so I snoozed notifications on it. Guess what it did? It snoozed notifications on the desktop client too...

So disable notifications on the device for that app, not in the app.
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