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I don't really understand the point of this. Yes, hey.com is yet another reinvention of email. So what? Email has a lot of pain points. I don't see the need to mock someone for trying to improve the current state of email.

I say this as someone who vastly prefers email to say, slack.

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Ah, is there a reason why you don't prefer Slack?

In my experience, slack has a poor signal to noise ratio. Important information gets lost as people post gifs, memes, or banter in the same channel.

Search has gotten better, but it's still not great.

Some people expect you to respond immediately, defeating the purpose of asynchronous communication for non important / non blocking matters.

The format (like IRC) encourages multiple fragmented sentences instead of one long, cohesive message.

Slack isn't that bad by itself; it's mostly how people use it compared to say, email.

Ah, I agree. Not sure if people have completely given up on email to use Slack. It's an excellent collaboration software, though.

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