[nemothekid]

Maybe our settings are set correctly, but HipChat's notifications seem half baked. I've been trying out Slack on another org, and I noticed the biggest issue in the way we use Slack is that most of our communication is person to person.

This seems to come about because any HipChat message to a room you are in notifies & alerts the whole room on OS X. Because of this, most communication happens in private person to person rooms which defeats the purpose of having public rooms for transparency. I haven't been able to get any of the rooms feature to stick and so what commonly happens is two people discuss things on chat, then repeat those conversations to everyone who should have been on it in meatspace.

All of this because HipChat still doesn't let you set per-room notifications.

[ssmoot]

I'm 99% sure that's not the default and you've turned on some option to notify everything.

Otherwise there'd be no point of @all and @here if you were going to be notified anyways.