shy of public channels

Channels in Slack's Design are "super public", they are like an open office design. And just like open office design they actually make people talk less, not more.

This is because by saying anything in a channel you are using up "airtime" that could be used for other things.

This is made worse by the fact that Slack uses FOMO to force people to read stuff ASAP which means you can't quietly make something public, if you share it now you're going to interrupt someones' Deep Work now. By using airtime, you're spending people's limited pool of attention.

Links:

• Slack's broken hierarchy of priority

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Backlinks:

• Dgraph - Ripping off the slack bandaid
• Slack fragments your hardrive
• Slack is a black hole of information
• Slack makes information Available but not Discoverable
• Source--Zulip V.S. Slack