force the user to read everything
This happens whenever the Newsfeed that has a mixture of useless and super important information the user is forced to read everything despite the activity mostly wasting your time.
This happens in traditional email because you have newsletters, spam, and important messages from your boss all mixed up into one place. HEY solves this by divides things that are different.
Backlinks:
- Reverse Chronological Order
- Slack is a black hole of information
- Slack is hostile for the reader
- Slack makes information Available but not Discoverable
- Source--An Oral History of Our Week Without Slack
- The mystery in your inbox (Slack's notification V.S. Basecamp)
- The power of a title
- the reply all problem