pijora's comments

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[pijora]

I disagree.

Slack is so much more than a discussion app.

With integrations you can monitor your whole app in one place:

- sales

- bizdev

- ops

- deployment

- support

Same goes for Notion.

We pay $16 but it is an awesome bang for the buck:

- crm

- collaborating blog draft

- project management

- finance

- knowledge base

And again, in one place.

[tirpen → pijora]

Or you can set up email notifications and do the exact same thing in any mail client, like people have been doing for ages.

But that's not cool any more I guess.

[parasubvert → tirpen]

I think you underestimate how pervasive and usable Slack is over email.

Email is still fine and necessary but is mostly for long form asynchronous communication. Organizing email inboxes is a pain. Spam is a pain.

Slack is pre-organized and automatically integrated with a dozen other tools. It’s the beating heart of a distributed organization.

[fnord77 → tirpen]

nothing to do with "cool". I could never go back to email after using slack-like software. It's so much more efficient.

[OOPMan → fnord77]

That is debatable. For sending IMs, sure. For a lot of other stuff it's pretty noisy and even with search is still less organisable than email.

[hombre_fatal → OOPMan]

It's debatable which is why the snark of "guess email isn't cool anymore :(" is such tired commentary, suggesting everyone is just an idiot lemming for not having email enlightenment.