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I fucking hate slack dot com

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Eh, I like Slack. Can't relate.

Turn off the friggin' notifications if you don't like them. (I don't understand why anybody leaves notifications turned on on any app, tbh -- I turn everything off the first time I see it.)

Exactly this.

Slack warns you "are you sure you want to notify all these people" or "it's outside this person's hours"... If they have Notifications turned on, that's their problem, especially if they were silly enough to setup Slack on their phone with notifications.

If someone needs my attention instantly, they can call me. (and then leave a voicemail, because I keep my phone on silent too ;)

Still better than this barely usable garbage called Google Chat.

Messages from 6 months ago shown as "TODAY", PM/mention notifications delivered to GMail after 12 or 24 hours, no possibility to mark message as a reminder, "PWA" needing page refreshing and 25MB downloads...

Zulip is a godsend in comparison to this joke of a communication tool but sadly businesses like "ecosystems" even if it distracts productivity and communication.

I can relate, so I wanted to build something that is more organized. Similar to email, but with all the modern features we have in other tools like chats and online forums. I posted a thread about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32139750

Force the use of only threads in your channels, where the initial message is the topic, to relieve most of annoyances of slack.

In case this is not sarcasm..

Why do people talk about minor inconveniences as if they were life threatening. Slack is a tool and it provides options to control notifications. There's nothing to hate. I would understand if there were performance or usability challenges. For e.g. teams is a bit laggy. But slack is a good tool overall.

"it provides options to control notifications"

yes, Google too may give you all the tools to control your privacy (in EU), but I just do not want to spend any more minutes of my super valuable life on that shit.

I do hate Slack, too :)

>Why do people talk about minor inconveniences as if they were life threatening.

probably one talks that way about minor inconveniences if:

1. There are a lot of them all piled up - thereby leading to more inconvenience than you could reasonably handle

2. One is going through something else at the moment that is very problematic which then means you don't have the psychic reservoir to deal with the minor inconvenience

3. Perhaps it is a minor inconvenience for most people but is worse for you because you have some other major inconvenience or condition in your life that the otherwise minor one exacerbates.

Slack is better than any alternative I've used. What is better?

Well managed email.

Slack is the equivalent of a noisy open concept office in your computer.

Email is like a cubicle with a door and the only way people can interrupt you is thorough a little mailbox in the door.

Slack is the antithesis of deep work.

There's nothing fundamental in email that means you'll get fewer notifications than Slack. If you don't want to be interrupted just turn off notifications temporarily. Or quit the app.

In slack the default communication is the channel where multiple people get the same message. That's why I compare it with a no soy open office concept were everyone yells at each other.

In email the default communication mechanism is the message to one person... That's why I compare it to a cubicle with a door.. you can close the door... Ie have your email client only check for new messages once a day or you can leave the door open ie check your email client multiple times a day.

Nonsense. Slack has direct messages. Email has groups. There's no difference.

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