I feel like this is about as relevant to this discussion as someone arrogantly interjecting, "Oh I don't own a TV," when talking about Netflix shows.

I've been tempted to stop using it, but instead just shut off notifications. I really like being able to pull it up quickly to see when code has been pushed up, pull requests created / merged, or whatever automated CI action is going on for a particular project.

The chatter can burn a lot of time though. You're absolutely right there.

Your show of virtue has been noted by the Ministry of Statistics. Thank you for the data point.

Using MS Teams at the office and I couldn't agree more. It's useful about 30% of the time. The other 70% is sharing giphies and news links.

Do you only call / talk to people in person at your job? In my experience that is much more disruptive than an instant message.

Working as a publisher and having channels to talk to each of our clients is amazing and increases productivity and communication way beyond just email and phone. But that's just my particular use-case :)

I have two jobs, the one without Slack is much harder to stay on top of.

I just mute the gif-sharing channel.