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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by avian on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:14AM (#23299114)
> Channel and message overload is arguably not much better than the email system it is meant to replace.

I still don't understand why this is surprising. Why do people continuously think that moving to another way of receiving messages will somehow help with the overload? At best it's only a short term solution, before all message faucets that are responsible for the overload eventually get migrated over.

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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by throwaway_pdp09 on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:49AM (#23299551)
Is slack meant to replace email? I thought it was intended as a complementary tool (having used slack, I don't see it offers much actually).
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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by avian on Monday May 25, 2020 @06:18AM (#23299700)
Slack's home page certainly hints at it being meant to replace email. e.g. "Instead of a single overstuffed inbox...", "Unlike email...".
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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by throwaway_pdp09 on Monday May 25, 2020 @06:35AM (#23299775)
They say that? Well I for one am convinced by their marketing.
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