People like slack because using it feels like "working".
It's not. Everyone who has described to me how their "productivity" went up because of slack I am able to explain away. It's not work, it's keeping up with slow chats and a mess of interlaced conversations. That's not work.
Test: In a popular channel wait until someone asks a question. Immediately then post another question. This should be ok behavior (it is with email). See what happens. The previous one quickly goes away as other people type. What a mess.
Chat isn't how work gets done, it's how people trick themselves into thinking they are "working".
A big part of most jobs is communication. Any tool that improves that is a win. For me Slack has replaced email in a good way (can set up reminders, bots, have sub-threads, among others). This doesn't mean that it will work for everybody...
> The previous one quickly goes away as other people type
I don't even like Slack, but that complaint seems petty and easy to avoid using threads...
It's easy to nitpick anything if you put your mind to it, but at the end of the day most people find chat pretty intuitive and useful for communicating, which is actually part of "working" for most people.
It's not. Everyone who has described to me how their "productivity" went up because of slack I am able to explain away. It's not work, it's keeping up with slow chats and a mess of interlaced conversations. That's not work.
Test: In a popular channel wait until someone asks a question. Immediately then post another question. This should be ok behavior (it is with email). See what happens. The previous one quickly goes away as other people type. What a mess.
Chat isn't how work gets done, it's how people trick themselves into thinking they are "working".