5/27/2023 0 Comments What does slack do![]() ![]() This form of communication is sometimes useful (e.g. Group chat apps like Slack are built for a specific kind of communication - one-line-at-a-time, real-time conversations. Something for teams like ours with the audacity to think that maybe there’s more to work than keeping up with group chat… The problem with real-time most of the time It’s also the story of how we had the (possibly) crazy idea that we could contribute something fundamentally different to an already cluttered team communication market. ![]() This post is the story of why we stopped using Slack. Almost overnight, we went from a group of 30 individuals to a true team.Īnd then, two years in, we quit Slack cold turkey. We celebrated successes and discussed ways to improve our work. ( Lots of gifs.) We reported bugs and developed inside jokes. Communication between team members across continents exploded. To say the app was a game-changer would be putting it mildly. But our steadily growing team based across several time zones made it hard to stay on the same page and even harder to feel like one, cohesive team. Until then, we had relied on a mix of email and an internal tool called Wedoist for all of our communication. ![]() Three years ago our remote company joined Slack. ![]()
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