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throwaway91021on Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?

People create one @ alias per team and also many others for subteams or temporary project teams, etc. There is one for oncall too. Every time one of those aliases gets tagged, I get a notification, an orange counter or sometimes messages from Slackbot asks me to join the channels.

*> punches through notification settings

I'd like to specify which aliases should not be ignored but I can't in Slack, unless I'm missing something.

Also, disabling the oragen counter is not possible (even for muted channels).

throwaway91021on Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?

> Is your management chain aware that you are diagnosed with ADHD

No, and I don't think it will help, to be honest. They will just start paying even more attention to my work and decide it's not worth it.

throwaway91021on Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?

I have it set to "Nothing" but whenever I have the window open, I can see the orange notification conter popping up on several channels (even if I mute them).

I tried leaving channels but I get invited back whenever people tag my team, so I gave up and muted all of them (but still get the notification counter, which makes muting useless for me).

EDIT: Whenever someone tags my team, the little Slack icon on the tray bar goes red... and I don't know if that's a direct message (usually important) or someone tagging my team just "fyi". I have to check it always.