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by cbzbc 2437 days ago
Slack can be used as a asynchronous mechanism - but too many teams develop into using direct IMs/convos as a preferred communications style.
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kasey_junk 2437 days ago
It can be but nothing about it makes that the default or even easy.

I’d love to see companies abandon chat in favor of discussion threads.

For “water cooler” conversations video is almost always better.

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chrisweekly 2437 days ago
Yeah, cultural norms are what matter here (vs the tool per se).

Slack usage covers the whole gamut, from one extreme [proper (ie, consistent) use of channels, status / DND, and notification settings, making it a very effective, developer-friendly and management-helping async-oriented system] to the other [flowstate-killing, nonsense-generating chaos of interrupts and noise].

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eeZah7Ux 2437 days ago
Slack is entirely designed to encourage casual chat-like conversation with emoticons, reactions & so on.

Want meaningful async communication? Think of the UIs of usenet clients or even email clients.

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