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Comment by ktosobcy | Hacker News Reader

I think that slack and focus contradicts each other... never managed to find out the benefits of slack, most of the time it's just a noise...

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I lose focus when editing messages in Slack because their input box does not respect things like the keyboard's home and end keys which turns simple changes into confusing chores. Unfortunately, their support staff told me that basic editing is not a priority and will never be addressed

This annoys me every single day, have logged several bugs for it but haven’t really gotten anywhere.

Honestly, I do find that Slack helps me focus.

I can pretty easily make sure that I ignore non-critical rooms, and only get notifications if someone @‘s me.

It would be really nice if as a user you could suppress all @here, @channel etc shouts and only enable them for a few specific rooms.

Overall Slack + 100% remote work has massively improved my focus and ability to get things done while remaining social and involved.

You sure you don't want to get lost into MS Teams? Where you lose chats all the time and can hardly paste codes and links without it all going wonky?

Joking aside, I am will you on the 100% remote + slack fondness. I'll also regularly mute all if I'm trying to do a deep work session for a couple of hours.

MS teams is a dumpster fire, no one should be forced to use that piece of crap for communication.

Teams doesn’t even implement scrolling backwards through message history correctly - it’s like some kind of janky game of precise mouse control to see if you can get it to stay still on the message you’re interested in.

Well, what's the alternative? If you expect someone will write you an email and wait 2 days for the reply, then you're in for a disappointment. They'll just call you.

We do use XMPP, and by default I disabled notifications for all groupchat rooms so I get instant notification for 1-to-1 chats and can respond and ignore the rest. In Slack it's quite common (from my observation) to ping lots of people at one time and also create channels for all sorts of notifications (build failure, like it had to be _instant_... what for?!)

You can customize notifications in slack and leave only 1:1 if you want https://slack.com/help/articles/360056534254-Manage-notifica...

I find having easily accessible feed from monitoring tools pretty useful.

Out of the box, I would agree. With notification settings set up across channels, I would disagree.

I agree. I can manage my notifications across more channels a lot better in Slack than in MS Teams

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