Hipster horror! Slack has gone TITSUP: Total inability to support user procrastination Hipster darling and reskinned IRC client Slack went dark today, with users having to resort to actually speaking to each other instead. The topple began at 10:25 UK time, with Slack's status drone tweeting that the service was having some problems. Things appeared to get back to normal 10 minutes later (the time it takes a …
Because despite having a bunch of slack channels set up for our various projects, I only get about 1 message every few months.
It's just a waste of computing resources. I just checked and there are 6 Slack processes running consuming over 300Mb of RAM in total and about 4% of CPU
No, email is borderline useless for realtime communications. When you have teams across 3 timezones, it's pretty much invaluable. Besides, my email is flooded with vendor spam and other useless correspondence, so chances are I'll just miss anything significant.
Yeah, you could use IRC, but Slack has all these third party integrations that make our lives a lot easier.
"Besides, my email is flooded with vendor spam and other useless correspondence"
Use a different email address for the teams. And if you can, close the spammed address and think of the howls of pain from the marketing jerks when their valuable marketing messages spam bounces.
No, email is borderline useless for realtime communications
Who really needs realtime communications, slack is a waste of time. It allows BAs to just vomit stuff without thinking and then interrupting the dev team trying to get them to actually write the requirements instead of sitting down and thinking about what is required and putting it into a structured email.
The major pain user with slack is the micro managers, hey just stand back and actually let your team do something.
slack was forced on me so the first thing I did was mute everything. If you need something from me ask a structured question that can actually have an answer send it to me and then let me think about an answer. Doing the same thing with slack will just get the standard reply. "I need to think about this so I will get back to you later."
Now you made me curious. What a progress.
Hexchat with 13 channels across 3 networks eats less than 0.01% (left idle, up to 6% by busily tabbing between channels) and 14mb ram, and that's on windows. Something like bitchx in its native habitat probably eats not even a fraction of that.
Thank goodness for that - it was beginning to look like I'd picked the wrong week to quit anything!
Really OMG. I'm sure there a bazillion useless slack teams, but there are also a billion useful ones as well. Slack is the main communication channel with our offsite team. And this is hampering our normal discussion. With them being 12hrs offset from our timezone IM is the best way to discuss.
Slack will loose customers over this. chat.goole.com being the new contender. M$ Teams is just useless (well I haven't looked recently, but I am still in recovery about the last time I did)
"Slack is the main communication channel with our offsite team. And this is hampering our normal discussion. With them being 12hrs offset from our timezone IM is the best way to discuss."
12 hours isn't instant which is what the I in IM stands for. As someone said higher up the thread, have you tried email?
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"My inbox currently has 70k+ unread messages - to say email is close to useless would be an understatement..."
Please would you report back to us when you have 70k+ messages in Slack?
And tell us how you organise them?
And tell us how well your devices are running?
Thanks in anticipation.
My inbox currently has 70k+ unread messages
Well Doh! haven't you ever heard of email rules. The one thing that email does that slack is completely incapable of is allowing you to set up filtering rules to allow you to ignore/delete/move to different folders etc. The vast majority of my email gets deleted especially notifications from slack to tell me to look in slack.
"My inbox currently has 70k+ unread messages - to say email is close to useless would be an understatement..."
I suspect the useless thing is your email filtering system. Mine filters out spam and sorts the rest into folders for me, so I know which ones are worth ignoring.
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I love the thumbs down... probably from people who don't communicate other than thumbs down clicks. Enjoy writing snail mail letters to each other and curse the state of global communications today. Maybe they are adventurous and get on 40m with a Yagi and hope sun spot activity is favourable... oh the good ol' days when technology and a purpose, rather than a waste of time.
Maybe they are just Lotus Notes fans an hate anything resembles usefulness!
why would you use slack when you can get a secure and opensource equivalent :
because everyone else is using Slack. It's a bit like asking why nobody uses Google+ even though it's better than FaceBook.
I am not using Slack. As an aside I do not use Google+ or Facebook or MatterHost.... whatever that is. Assuming I exist inside the set of 'everyone else' by virtue of not being you and I do not use Slack then you are completely wrong and should delete yourself.
Glad to have been of assistance.
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