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Yeah, sure. And I usually build up a set of filters and rules so that my inbox is manageable, but I think the compassionate point of view is that email is loaded with more disposable and management heavy communications than slack tends to be.

Slack was where work got done. Email, less so.




> email is loaded with more disposable and management heavy communications

That's a cultural problem, not a technical one.

Slack gets work done just because the bad practices haven't migrated to it yet, not because it's a better communication medium.

In some spaces the email bad practices have migrated to slack too and personally I have to ignore slack just as much as email because of that.


> Slack gets work done just because the bad practices haven't migrated to it yet, not because it's a better communication medium.

Well no solution can possibly compete with all the bad things that _might_ happen on it in 10 years time.


I have seen plenty of bad practices in slack. In particular, there is more and more of a tendency to treat slack as "publication of record" as opposed to "ephemeral missives".




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