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Re:How Slack hooks users through artificial urgency by jgh on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:49PM (#15828447)
Slack for work mostly sucks. It's OK for communities where urgency is obviously not there -- basically as an alternative IRC. I have worked at a couple companies that used IRC. They beauty of IRC is no offline notifications (unless you're using a cloud service, I guess) -- so it was only used during the workday.

I'm not sure if this is the case with other teams, but I've been noticing my team has been using public channels less and less lately, and I guess most slack-based communication must happen in private messages. We could probably change to a traditional IM client and not have to deal with Slack anymore.

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Re:How Slack hooks users through artificial urgency by j4ship on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:10PM (#15828595)
no offline notifications ... just filter it out.

If slack is only used during the work day then you would have the exact same application without the nice CI/file sharing and all the other bots slack has

How would you change the IM client??? Make it like slack. Just use slack.

"Slack for work mostly sucks." ... Whats your point? People use it after work hours?

Slack is not basically an alternative to IRC it IS an alternative, a better more feature rich one.

Slack has more features than IRC so slack sucks ... this typical tradition speak, fearful of new things. Many techies dont need slack but for those that have yet to take on the message app craze Slack is catalyzing a lot of new non techies.

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Re:How Slack hooks users through artificial urgency by jgh on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:31PM (#15828730)
I guess I hit a nerve. FWIW I've been using Slack since 2014, so it's not like I'm unfamiliar with it or have been shunning new technologies. I do like it for communities. I just don't like it for work.
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Re:How Slack hooks users through artificial urgency by davidpatrick on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:57PM (#15829305)
A tool is only as useful as the one who wields it. The problem with not using public channels is not a slack problem, it is a cultural problem.
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Re:How Slack hooks users through artificial urgency by icebraining on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:40PM (#15828801)
I'm fairly indifferent towards Slack, but I don't get your point about the beauty of IRC. If you don't want to receive Slack messages outside the workday, why are you on it at that time? I just close the client.
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