Slack is ruining my life and I love it

[rcjordan]

^{Not me, I have my own system for ruining my life. This guy...}

CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/tech/slack-confessions/index.html

[ergophobe]

My experience has been that most Slack channels I've been invited to die for lack of interest.

I found it worked great the first time I used it to encourage collaboration in a seminar. Worked so-so the second time. I'll probably try it again, but it's all group dynamics. You have to have a few active users and my seminars only have 8-10, so there's always a good chance nobody will take to it.

I suppose when you have a company of 30 you force onto it, then you're sure to have a few active users and sure to have it ruin your life.

[ergophobe]

I think the use case for Slack is this.

- Slack: casual conversation, quick questions. If it goes on Slack, you are saying "go ahead and ignore this, anything important will come through another channel."
- Asana, Basecamp, etc: organizing, delegating and communicating about actual work
- phone or face to face: important communication that needs an answer now.
- email: Banned for team communication. Used for kitty videos, vendor and client communication if you can't get them on Asana (basically impossible with vendors, so email can't be killed).

[Drastic]

I've used slack for various different things and never really liked the UI. I never felt like I had a good flow and it felt like a cross between a forum script and IM.

>My experience has been that most Slack channels I've been invited to die for lack of interest.
same.

A lot of these are mobile first platforms and they need a better desktop experience. Might be part of it.

[ergophobe]

For me Slack is really desktop first. It is for people who peer into the blue muse all day long and want to type

[Drastic]

I meant the dev is mobile-first focused so that desktop is back-seated. Slack is probably the least offensive here, but still applies.