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>Like WhatsApp, DingTalk lets senders see if recipients have read messages, but it also has a "ding" feature that can bombard recipients with repeat notifications, text messages and phone-call reminders.

“Sorry boss, you’re breaking up. “

hangs up phone and turn on airplane mode

Either that or “accidentally” leave your phone on silent after a meeting.

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I haven't had to turn my phone off in a long time on planes. It's like that problem went away.

...Is airplane mode going to be like the save icon where I have to explain to my kids why an airplane means shutting off all comms?

phones and tablets don't contribute an issue to the aircraft operation. Finally the industry got called on their BS and you can do what you want, and buy their in flight wifi.

Not to defend ding, but how is that different from PagerDuty?

Pagerduty is specifically for on call staff who's job is to respond, immediately, to alerts.

And it's expected that they only respond when they're "carrying the pager", that is, on their on-call shift.

One of PagerDuty's features is figuring out who's the right person to page right now.

I think the main difference is psychological. A dedicated emergency pager application contacting whoever is on call at that moment will lead to quite different usage than a targeted super-buzz feature integrated into a normal messenger application.

Pager duty is typically on a rotation shared between the team members, so ur on call like one week out of 8 or so. Not 24/7, no location tracking, only real issues that impact the product, etc.

And then your boss will ask you why your phone is on silent/in airplane mode. Don't think the app can't or won't track such juicey details ;)

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