Thread for boring Slack questions

the modern world is terrible and i'll never fit in

slack is basically a persistent irc, a platform I probably used excessively in the mid 90s!

platform fragmentation is garbage, though. half my department uses teams and the other half use mattermost, which is about 1/3rd as bloated and pretty good imo

everything I remember about IRC and MOOs from the 90s, suggests that things *constantly* get lost in the "conveyor belt" of chatter

fwiw slack (and many of the others) persist messages now, and if your friends/coworkers are smart enough to actually @ you when they specifically want your direct input, you can do a threaded response to that message. direct messages also exist, and are persistent

for all the one-off platforms I don't regularly check, I just get an email notification at some point that directs me to where I was pinged

also worth noting that many of the youth again find this kind of format native for them -- discord is huge, and it's another irc derivative

^ haha love that tweet.

I was just looking at the app in bright sunlight, trying to find my direct messages. Up at the top of the sidebar I though it said "Threats". New feature potential?