Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything

Re:Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything by nine_k on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @09:32PM (#27125686)

Slack is fine for transient communication. That is, it's fine unless you might need to dig up a particular conversation a year after, or five years. Actually, finding stuff as old as one week can be problematic already.

Maybe for you this is not important. For me it has proved to be key many times.

Also, filtering. You cannot withstand the same stream of info and notifications from Slack as you can from email, because there are no filtering and classification rules. Channels help, but in a limited way.

Slack works well for casual and ephemeral communication. For other use cases, you need a serious tool like email.

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Re:Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything by asmosoinio on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:54AM (#27126731)

I can find Slack conversations from years ago just fine, also link a lot to Slack in our ticketing system which is very useful.

So for me Slack has become a second memory for technical and other details.

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Re:Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything by zelphirkalt on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:05AM (#27126780)

No useful threading in Slack, which is still one of its silliest issues. You must be using a paid version of Slack to see messages from a long time ago, as they have a limit on the no-cost version. This probably makes you dependent on your employer. When one switches between channels in Slack, oh boy is that think laggy! Sometimes I can wait for 5s, before the thing has switched, on a fairly modern CPU and up to date browser. In Thunderbird I can switch to saved searches and folders seemingly no matter how many e-mails I have in there in what seems to be perhaps 100 milliseconds. Lets face it: Slack is hopelessly bloated slow and laggy to no end. E-mail does not have these issues, if you use the right tools, as in not using anything like MS Office 265 Outlook to access e-mails, because that is broken in similar ways.

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Re:Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything by asmosoinio on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:47AM (#27193072)

> This probably makes you dependent on your employer.

I did not understand this.

I use Slack at work. I would assume my employer owns all the work related discussions we have and keeps that as useful documentation around many issues? And if someone leaves the company, it is a feature and not a bug that they will not have access to those internal discussions.

What is bad about this?

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Re:Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything by pgwhalen on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @02:48PM (#27133752)

What is not useful about threading in slack? My organization uses it to great success.

Sure, it could be improved, but so can anything.

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