| > Not when I have to keep sorting my mailing lists into its own There's a field on emails called subject. Linux kernel is still developed using mailing list, I can imagine only a few things harder than that, still the kernel team manages to work on it just fine, without being in the same physical space. Channels are just another way of labeling stuff... > (even more when I'm working from home) emails have been distributed, async and remote-aware since the 60s. I'm really genuinely curious to understand why people keep making this point, while that's one of the most irrelevant feature of Slack. I'm not saying email is perfect, just saying that your points are not a unique feature of slack, anyone of them have existed for decades. > Yes, e-mail could be used for all of that, it would also make my inbox completely useless. Just like channels on Slack after a while. BTW https://www.mattermost.org/ offers the same features Slack offers, but I guess people are not switching because mattermost is not a recognized brand. Just like people don't buy Nike shoes to ditch them for equally comfortbale but brandless flea market shoes. It's a shame that tech people are so fashionable. EDIT: formatting |
Unfortunately for us, tech people, business decisions are taken on ease-of-use and other features that we don't tackle when we focus on the technical aspects of products, companies don't want to invest to roll out their own infrastructure, for anything, that is why the cloud is a thing. It's the same with a chat app, if a company can pay another company and offload all of the liability and responsibility to an easy-to-use product, they will do.
I don't know why you are ranting with me. I have used mailing lists before, I have used IRC before and I know what kind of workflows each can improve on my 15 years of career.
E-mails don't cut it, it's not the same ease of use, I don't care if technically I can achieve the same results, the interface and interaction is different and this is enough of an improvement for a product to have its place over another.
Good for the Linux Kernel to keep being developed on a mailing list, the rest of the world doesn't and is better if another tool can improve communication, be it IRC, Mattermost or Slack.
Create a product better than Slack and push it around to solve this problem, don't try to preach this to me, a mere cog in the system that is trying to be productive.