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Discussion on: Slack keeps interrupting you, but you can stop it

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

It's ironic, these are basically the principles that IRC culture has operated on for two+ decades, and yet we don't even have message logging (especially when offline) as a default part of the protocol!

Alumni IRCers live by the principles of lurk, scrollback, ask and wait (even for more than 24 hours at times), and not pinging when someone is marked /away. As a result, most people are able to lurk constantly in IRC, without feeling compelled to answer absolutely everything.

Yet an asyncronous chat service like Slack, being more technically capable of allowing the same cultural principles, is more demanding. Weird, isn't it?

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Nick Cinger

Yea, it is weird! I guess it's really just a people problem again. The tech is there, but the more convenient you make it, the lower barrier to entry, the less rules are implied. Or that's how I see it.

Don't get me wrong, it's great that we're off Email and Skype, but there's room for improvement for sure.