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[–] jaybone 55 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This is why slack is bullshit. And discord. We should all go back to email. It can be stored and archived and organized and get off my lawn.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's not Slack's fault. It is a good platform for one-off messages. Need a useless bureaucratic form signed? Slack. Need your boss to okay the afternoon off? Slack. Need to ask your lead programmer which data structure you should use and why they're set up that way? Sounds like the answer should be put in a wiki page, not slack.

All workflows are small components of a larger workplace. Emails also suck for a lot of things. They probably wouldn't have worked in this case, memos are the logical upgrade from emails where you want to make sure everyone receives it and the topic is not up for further discussion.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman 0 points 7 months ago

memos are the logical upgrade from emails where you want to make sure everyone receives it

uh, email is memos? email is so memos that ibm's proprietary email management solution Lotus Notes calls the transaction "create memo" where outlook calls it "new message".

and the topic is not up for further discussion.

bit rude, imo.

[–] jaybone -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, email is still better for all of those things. Except the wiki page, of course.

[–] deweydecibel 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean, unironically, yeah.

It's not even that we need to go back to email. The problem isn't moving on from outdated forms of communication, it's that the technology being pushed as a replacement for it is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Which is to say nothing of the fact that all of these new platforms are proprietary, walled off, and in some cases don't make controlling the data easy if you're not hosting it (and their searches are trash).

[–] sudo42 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

all of these new platforms are proprietary, walled off, and in some cases don’t make controlling the data easy if you’re not hosting it

You’ve just discovered their business case. So many new businesses these days only insinuate themselves into an existing process in order to co-opt it and charge rents.

[–] militaryintelligence 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Even then, you get banned from Google for some reason, what then?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Don’t use google as your email provider
Keep backups of your email (you can do this on gmail, too)