This ^ - being forced to use an external editor to type you response then copy/paste defeats the purpose. Plus Slack is such a POS anyway. I also hate the distraction of the crap notifications. Humans are not interrupt-driven creatures.

so long as we're dogpiling Slack, let me add in my complaint: You can't mute Slackbot, and Slackbot sends a LOT of dumb and pointless messages about channel management. At work they're constantly adding thousands of people to "watch party" or other random channels, then archiving those channels later on, and I keep getting notifications from Slackbot about them.

I was trying to keep Slack notifications unmuted in case my manager needs something from me, but I was just getting too much useless crap from Slackbot. Finally I had to mute it completely and tell him to call my cell if anything comes up

Huh, I enjoy a muted slackbot. Are you sure it’s not just that you can’t mute slackbot when a personal at-mention is “injected” in slackbot’s message? Because yea that’s annoying af. That comes from slack app developers not understanding the platform though. At-mentions should only be used with intention, and obviously an at-mention in a DM is completely unnecessary.

I am leaving a workplace after less than a year. And this is a major contributing factor. We work remotely but the company culture is to spend all day on Slack with synchronous responses.

When I started setting my status to DND they would keep messaging. If I don't respond within 5 minutes, they grab my lead to do the thing. I'm not repremanded but it just feels bad.

I started just exiting Slack for a few hours in afternoons to get through my work. So they started calling my cell. And if you don't pick up they call and text again.

I'm moving on because it makes my head hurt and I feel like I am getting nothing done as a result.

Slack is just part of the problem but I really think it encourages such culture.

I started my career and remote work with email and a VOIP phone on my desk to talk across borders. As crap as those tools were, somehow the Slack culture has made it worse.

What’s wrong with someone seeing that you are typing?

Seriously.

The article has a lot to say about it.

At the very least, they're seeing when you're starting to type something, then decide not to type at all. Generally, when you do that the intent is send nothing. Not send "I almost said something, but nevermind".

To me this is a breach of privacy.