On 2015-07-12 23:13, Allan Irving wrote: > > You can delete and keep specific messages. > > Lack of threads are just replaced with channels.
Are you serious? You create one channel per discussion? I have (and still am) used slack in three different companies, we had one channel per theme, so typically one per team, one per interest (say cooking), one per product, one per major incident (outage, we don't understand what's going on, we create a channel and all get busy). My experience of slack is that it is the electronic equivalent of working in an open space, with potential for meeting rooms. It does it incredibly well, it gives you the opportunity to be "at the office" while working remotely (two of the companies I mentioned above are fully geographically distributed), or on a second notice in the evening, or even during my lunch time. As mentioned earlier in this thread, I don't want to be in an electronic open office space with non-work related folks. I have found a company slack can be distracting enough if there is an expectation of everybody replying immediately all the time, and people get chatty, I can't imagine getting any work done if I had to also follow non-work slacks. I don't think there is a non-electronic equivalent of email. I think a lot of the value of email has been lost because of gmail that makes email easy to use but unusable for a lot of things. Things that I can do, and the expectation around email, with a good email client that cannot be done or aren't expected from IM/slack: - *good*, per discussion threading - split per message which allows sorting per date, subject (threads), author, recipients, etc... - expectation and ease of delayed reading and answering. In slack, if you don't answer a busy channel within minutes of a discussion, the channel's moved on to another discussion. Even reading is hard (too much to read), and usually useless because people use slack for immediacy. I check my email when I'm back from holidays, or I'll even have a quick look once per day during the holiday (in the cases I have a high bus factor) because it's manageable, I absolutely do not care about slack, because by the time I get to it it's too late, people got their answer, or found a work around. > How many here have used Slack as there is a lack of knowledge regarding the > features. Yes I have, and am still using it. Again, which email client do you use Allan? I have a feeling you haven't used email in an efficient manner and hence are confused by the overlap of the two. -- http://yves.zioup.com gpg: 4096R/32B0F416 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
