Source--Why I Hate Slack and You Should Too

https://www.bitquabit.com/post/i-hate-slack-and-you-should-too/

• Slack merged phone calls, email, IRC all into one. Before he could ignore the stuff that could wait, now he can't.

• It cannot be sanely ignored

  • 99% of the time it's unimportant, but what if it's not?? You have to check.

• It cannot be sanely organized

  • The only way Slack bothers to offer to organize information is by channels which are at best, weak guidelines ^8caaed

• It’s proprietary and encourages lock-in

  • Worse than email for this reason

• It encourages use for both business and personal applications

  That’s right: the same application and environment that makes a full-blown Dementor-style kiss with my attention span for work can now corner me in a back-alley when I just want to shoot the breeze with friends.

Threads don't work because of rabid bull of real-time chat

Slack honestly is trying to address this with threads, but the problem, which anyone who tried using a system like Wave or Zulip or something similar could tell you, is that the origami crane of organizing information neatly by topic🦢 runs basically head-on to the rabid bull of real-time chat👿 and then everything falls apart, so these don’t actually get used effectively in practice. Hell, whether a conversation uses a thread or not in Slack in the first place—and whether a threaded conversation stays that way in Slack (thanks, “Also send to #channel” checkbox! may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits!)—seems sufficiently random that I’d be comfy using it as the main entropy source for a digital slot machine. ↩︎

• Link: There's no good way to use Slack threads

Responses to it

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14732459

Slack is only better than what you already know

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Backlinks:

• Slack MOC