Except that I can't communicate with my dev team.

Yeah, maybe that's why their productivity has increased? :)

We're currently discussing architecture decisions.

Have you tried using email and/or a phone? These seem to work well for all other industries.

Don't be a jerk... he has a tool that he and his team likes, and he was using it for a real task. No need to be a jerk about it. Yes a phone would work, was that what he was using at the time? No.

Well he might have been using the Slack iOS or Android app so I think it's a bit premature to assume that he wasn't using a phone at the time.

discuss SPOFs more

Whooooosh

Not for me! I was literally in the middle of working on a Slack integration. At least now I know I wasn't crazy when it seemed like only half the requests I made generated a bot message.

Nope!