[bernardlunn]

I stopped using Slack. It is a productivity drain.

[seattle_spring]

I feel like this is about as relevant to this discussion as someone arrogantly interjecting, "Oh I don't own a TV," when talking about Netflix shows.

[tapvt]

I've been tempted to stop using it, but instead just shut off notifications. I really like being able to pull it up quickly to see when code has been pushed up, pull requests created / merged, or whatever automated CI action is going on for a particular project.

The chatter can burn a lot of time though. You're absolutely right there.

[user5994461]

I didn't have anything to stop notifications last I checked. Had to uninstall the app.

[mfringel]

Your show of virtue has been noted by the Ministry of Statistics. Thank you for the data point.

[avenoir]

Using MS Teams at the office and I couldn't agree more. It's useful about 30% of the time. The other 70% is sharing giphies and news links.

[aantix]

I wish they had an option to only notify me of images and gifies. I have no idea what the other stuff is about..

[ncallaway]

We solved this by creating a separate channel for gifs and news. Those interested can participate, those not interested can just mute the channel and ignore it.

[dtech]

Do you only call / talk to people in person at your job? In my experience that is much more disruptive than an instant message.

[legohead]

Working as a publisher and having channels to talk to each of our clients is amazing and increases productivity and communication way beyond just email and phone. But that's just my particular use-case :)

[SippinLean]

I have two jobs, the one without Slack is much harder to stay on top of.

I just mute the gif-sharing channel.