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Slack's entire UX is gamified to take your attention by any means necessary (bright colors, flashing lights, "join this channel!" notifications). It's a massive productivity sink, and it's designed to be that way.

>>> I am currently a member on seven Slacks

There's your problem.

I'm pretty surprised that you think Adium and Skype are better products than Slack - neither are the same and they are pretty clearly much worse at team communication, if you can call it that.

> There's your problem.

That's certainly one of my problems. But I work on multiple projects and every one of them has its own Slack. So what exactly am I supposed to do about that?

I also don't think the situation would be much better if I were only on one Slack. One Slack with multiple channels is more or less equivalent to multiple Slacks (except for the multiple login annoyance).

You can connect to multiple teams within the Slack client at once; it shows an icon for each vertically on the left side of the client if running the desktop client and lists them within a dropdown for the web client. Also, in the desktop client you can press cmd-1, cmd-2, cmd-3, etc. to switch among them.

Screenshot found on Google image search: https://toky.co/img/integrations/desktop-app-slack.png

Oh, I know that. The problem is if I lose my connection then I have to log back in to each one separately.

I'd say "There's Slack's problem". Having different emails and password to each and every Slack account you have is tedious to work with. Would be cool to have a single account to manage all workspaces. Kind of like you can join multiple repos as a collaborator on Github with your personal account.

> I have to log in to each one separately. AFAICT there is no way to link them so I can log into all of them all at once

I like Slack as a company and a product, but I cannot understand why they do this like they do. Even worse, if you forget our password to one team, you have to remember, the subdomain of the team you're on in order to even get the password back. So annoying.

I don't think this is the case. I requested a magic link for a team and entered an email address but it turned out to be the wrong email address for that team. Slack gave me this message in my email:

You requested a magic link for logging in to [foo].slack.com. Unfortunately, this email address isn't currently associated with that team.

We also searched for Slack teams you've already joined or are allowed to join, using [email address i entered]. It looks like you have several!

And then it lists a bunch of teams associated with that email address and includes Join buttons.

> I am currently a member on seven Slacks. Each one has a different username and password combination. I have to log in to each one separately. AFAICT there is no way to link them so I can log into all of them all at once.

I use Franz (http://meetfranz.com/) for this.