Re:People love working remotely
by Consultant32452 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:14PM
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I get 100+ emails per day. I'm almost certainly not reading the multi day email chain unless someone IMs me to ask for my input on it.
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Re:People love working remotely
by Buttons840 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:51PM
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Anyone ever had a company forum? Like Discourse or similar? That seems like a better format. Chat + forum.
I think that's what Slack is supposed to be - especially with Threads. So far it's just IRC with gifs where I work.
Re:People love working remotely
by hombre_fatal on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:13PM
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Slack has nothing in common with forums except that they named that feature "threads." It's only to pull a chat convo aside in a chat app.
That's what email rules are for. If there is a long email chain and I am not directly @mentioned in the body of the email, it automatically gets filtered away into a separate folder and stays unread there, while my inbox stays clean and up to date.
If my participation is actually needed in the thread, I will be inevitably @mentioned by someone, and the email stays in my main inbox folder.