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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by marktangotango on Thursday November 21, 2019 @07:26AM (#21593409)
You’ve described the pathology and first reason to NOT use chat for anything important. What am I supposed to do? Sit on the chat all day so I don’t miss anything? I’m on a team that does this now. I ignore the 100 to 1000 plus messages and memes a day and I have missed “important decisions”. It’s a net negative imo.
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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by eternalny1 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @08:10AM (#21593655)
I work on a remote small team, but we work on a highly complex, large code base.

We rarely pick up a phone, and we do not use email. Everything is 100% Slack.

This works well for us. You can bring in only the people you need, you can "star" messages and channels that are important, and none of us have any time to spam/meme the channels, so it's 100% business. We integrate the JIRA slackbot to keep abreast of what is going on in JIRA.

It all "just works" for us.

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by alistairSH on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:33AM (#21594340)
If your team is sending memes all day, that's a cultural problem. Slack is exposing the problem, not creating it.

My employer uses Slack. Our team channels are almost completely devoid of cruft. There are office/location based channels that contain more bloat, but those are easy to ignore and typically don't contain critical information. All of the "all employee" type channels are locked down.

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by Sholmesy on Thursday November 21, 2019 @07:44AM (#21593510)
That may be so, but that's a seperate issue.

If it is the primary method, you'll miss stuff.

Whether it should, is another matter, and running a one-man rebellion from within is probably not the most effective way to change that.

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by jasonzemos on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:39AM (#21594413)
This comment literally illustrates the pathology described by its parent. Not all organizations are cults run by cliche fascists who crush subordinates who make that kind of criticism.
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