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Re:Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy' by lisper on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:26AM (#21546150)
Yes, and this is exactly the problem with Slack: it tries to shoehorn both modes into a single mechanism.

Asynchronous communications must be structured fundamentally differently from synchronous ones in order to be effective. Trying to merge them into a single mechanism is a horrible mistake.

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Re:Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy' by wutbrodo on Friday November 15, 2019 @12:23PM (#21546688)
Async communication is what email is for! People who use Slack for sync communication are hopelessly confused (obvious tell: async doesn't notify you). This obviously only applies to DMs, @heres, and tags: public channels are just async modes that can smoothly transition into sync
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