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Re:Post-postal: What did we lose when we stopped writing let... by sigseg1v on Thursday October 24, 2024 @11:41AM (#41936658)
For some reason the most annoying discussions I am in are not in channels but in "group direct messages". Lots of them have 5+ people and spam discussions that are completely unrelated to me. There is no leave button. Muting is problematic because they have no topic and in 2 months if the same person wants to message a group of people, it will reuse the same group DM for a different message (eg. one month it's about if we have pictures of dogs to share for the internal blog and the next it's info about something urgent from HR).
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Re:Post-postal: What did we lose when we stopped writing let... by ddulaney on Thursday October 24, 2024 @11:37PM (#41942008)
Oh gawd the worst. Where I work was acquired, so there’s a mixture of Slack and Teams. Because Teams threading sucks so much, people there get in the habit of doing everything in group DMs.

It’s as bad as emails.

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