Thread for boring Slack questions

"oh sorry, i sent it to your XBox Live Account, and then when you didn't answer I tried you on MySpace"

Working at any office is like “Ok we’re transitioning to Salarya, but payroll is still in Bullfrog—did you see my Noosecock post? Submit your timecard on Fireplayce then jizz me on Smackdog . Do NOT upload to Crackerz without Yammer approval

— cancela lansbury (@gossipbabies) January 28, 2022

lol

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?