Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
by dingaling on Friday July 27, 2018 @12:47AM
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> Otherwise, you can check it whenever you're ready.
It's the "check it" that's a mess in a high-volume environment.
E-mail threads that can be seen to branch, and in a pinch I can skip irrelevant branches once I've determined their vector.
But each Slack channel is a continuous stream of text with a tiny scroll slider. There's no possibility of skipping a couple of pages of messages unless one just seaeches for direct mentions, at which point why bother? If it's important they'll just ring / call / e-mail..
It's the "check it" that's a mess in a high-volume environment.
E-mail threads that can be seen to branch, and in a pinch I can skip irrelevant branches once I've determined their vector.
But each Slack channel is a continuous stream of text with a tiny scroll slider. There's no possibility of skipping a couple of pages of messages unless one just seaeches for direct mentions, at which point why bother? If it's important they'll just ring / call / e-mail..