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Before Slack I was a big "Inbox Zero" kind of guy. But Slack is such a noisy product that it has essentially trained me to ignore alerts.

I like that DMs are pulled out from channel activity. But "Home" for me is such a hot mess of hundreds of channels with no easy way to discern important things from noise.

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The activity tab not defaulting to unread-only is the most perplexing design in history. Given that the setting is per workspace, you end up switching so many times to avoid a persistent white dot that you just start hating that tab. Ignoring it is an option but "Inbox Zero" type of guys like us just can't I think.

It really feels like the intended usage is to ignore white dots and focus on red, but then we really need a setting to remove all white dots who really can't proceed to real work until they're gone.

Ah, yeah I can see that. I suspect your company and mine use it differently. To fight the noise, people get @'d almost all the time, as a way to elevate the notification. So at our company, unless someone is @'d, they pretty much always ignore the message. Which does work. But being constantly @'d has its own plethora of problems.

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