Re:Our Week Without Slack
by icebraining on Saturday May 21, 2016 @07:03PM
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Or because we try to check email only twice a day (so that we are focusing on actual development).
That's the thing I'd like to have in our chat - a way to mark a message as "not urgent" (or vice-versa), so that it doesn't interrupt their work. Usually I just end up emailing them, but that just adds a bunch of friction to both sides, and even then some of my colleagues are expected to reply to emails with little delay, since they handle client support.
On IRC one can configure the client to alert the users only when the message matches certain terms, but we use Hangouts :|
That's the thing I'd like to have in our chat - a way to mark a message as "not urgent" (or vice-versa), so that it doesn't interrupt their work. Usually I just end up emailing them, but that just adds a bunch of friction to both sides, and even then some of my colleagues are expected to reply to emails with little delay, since they handle client support.
On IRC one can configure the client to alert the users only when the message matches certain terms, but we use Hangouts :|