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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by kelnos on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:08PM (#20229491)
I don't really get this.

Some people at my company get interrupted by slack all the time, and they complain about it.

I disable all notifications except for @-mentions and DMs (and then I only have desktop notifications; mobile is disabled). If I'm expecting to not want interruptions at all, I go to DnD mode for a bit.

And yet, when I tell people this, they just somehow claim they can't do what I do for some hand-wavy reason, and continue to complain.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by dplgk on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:42PM (#20229661)
Maybe because when you disable notifications you still get the god damned red dot/badge thing. They make it very hard to find out where to disable that.
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by gbear605 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:44PM (#20229667)
Disabling that is a feature built into your OS (well, at least on iOS and macOS)
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by thrw374747 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:57PM (#20229728)
The web app changes favicon even when in DnD - a terrible behavior.
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