We're a very small company which makes this all easier, but we've ended up with a similar Slack convention of everything being in threads and it makes Slack a lot more managable.
This works well until your team hits a certain size and suddenly you've got dozens of threads going on per day, and you're trying to somehow manage following threads, channels, and DMs.
I'm sick of Slack for this reason, and I think I'm going to start participating only as much as is required not to lose my job.
Right. I'm here for norms and organizing principles, but their answer just moves the firehose around, he still has 5 notifications, it's just... now they're buried in lengthy threads instead of lengthy channels.
There's a place for async chat. But it isn't good at replacing actual processes, documents, conversations, and organizing principles.
