- remove the "user is online" green dot.
Really, it's not needed. Once it's removed then everything becomes async by default (and so everything slows down a little bit =>everyone is happier)
Slack excels at real-time, interactive communication. It's chat, designed for back-and-forth. Your messages will get scrolled into the backlog if there's a lot of chat while you're away.
The green dot (or the "busy" setting) is great for understanding whether the other person is going to receive your message as a notification at their computer or a push message on their phone. That's highly relevant.
Email doesn't have an easy way to add someone to a thread, or to manage a forked conversation. It's closed and non-discoverable by default.
You add them to the cc list.
> or to manage a forked conversation.
Your email client is at fault there, any decent email manages forked conversations.
> It's closed and non-discoverable by default.
Thats why you have mailing lists which are indexed and searchable. You may see 'closed and non discoverable' as a downside, I do not. Anything that should be discoverable should be on a wiki.
I have very minimal experience using email, but doesn't this just add them to a new message as opposed to adding them to old messages?
Anyone reading the "to" line can see where the reader was introduced.
I'll be honest to say, most things that is said in any communication medium is a complete waste of time. Having i searchable rather than forcing it on people globally is the only scalable option.
I think most of us are lucky enough to work in companies or roles where that’s an acceptable option, but many others are not. It’s gotta be a cultural company change or one driven by the product team at Slack.