alt Hacker NewsThe bullet points for using Slack basically describe email (and distribution lists).
It’s funny how we get an instant messaging platform and derive best practices that try to emulate a previous technology.
Btw, email is pretty instant.
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unethical_ban • today at 3:01 AM
I get it, email accomplishes a lot. But it "feels" like a place these days for one-off group chats, especially for people from different organizations. Realtime chat has its places and can also step in to that email role within a team. All my opinion, none too strongly held.
If you work in a team, email is limited to the people you cc: while a convo in a slack channel can have people you didn't think of jump in* with information.
See the other point in the article about discouraging one on one private messages and encouraging public discussion. That is the main reason.
* half a day later or days later if you do true async, but that's fine.