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Hence legacy orgs with large headcount go for cheaper MS teams as it comes bundled with other critical Microsoft subscriptions.

Slack has overall better UX than mail but sometimes it can get distracting because you are flooded with notifications and usual expectation with slack is to respond relatively quickly

Agreed. Getting tagged in a group for a one time task and then forever receiving it's notifications is quite distracting and useless

Product Marketing Manager

You can set the notification to only notify you when mentioned. 
  
 Also for channels they now have a feature to show only either started channels or non-starter channels when some activity happens in the channel.

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just beware! don't overshare on slack, admin can read everything

They can read your messages on your own profile too?

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It's been almost a month at my new job and among other things, the transition from email to slack for internal conversations has been very very interesting.   previously everything had to be on ema...

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It's been almost a month at my new job and among other things, the transition from email to slack for internal conversations has been very very interesting. 

previously everything had to be on email for it to be considered legit, slack was also there but not an official channel. 
now it is slack and only slack, personally prefer this.

Gmail vs slack

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What do you folks prefer from a communication perspective. 
I've been using Teams extensively but want to know more about folks who've used slack or both....what's your opinion.

Slack vs MS Teams

Founder

Do you think keeping or deleting slack off your personal phones gets you to better mental health and wlb?

Not only slack but any work related stuffs

Slack and work apps on personal devices

Software Developer

Hi all... I'm building an alternative for slack and teams ...... Where businesses don't have to pay monthly user fees but can get the software  just by doing one payment and host it on their own machine .... Below are the demo of early version let me know what you think 



https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N1gqui2FV7IDe0hlTg1J3LvPBkD-tSAs/view?usp=sharing

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Slack and teams alternative

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no time to deep work. too frequent interruptions

Does anyone else feel half their time goes in just replying to people on Slack?

We use
1. Freshdesk
2. Mixpanel
3. Gecko boards
4. Jira
5. Slack

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I can’t be be the only one, but I am surrounded by multiple people that just do not believe in async communication. They first send a “hi”, wait for me to acknowledge and then only proceed to tell me what they want. Even if it is something ridiculous like “What is the URL to access this portal?”. 

I generally am very quick with messages and from the last few months, this “hi” business is ticking me off. I decided to do some social experiment and delayed my responses to hi. 

If someone just sends me a “hi”, I schedule a “hi” to 3 hours from then. Result? People would rather sit on blockers than tell me what they want. 

I then tried a decreasing backoff. If you texted me a “hi” once, I’d respond in 3 hours. Repeat it a second time, I’d respond in 4 hours. 5 hours the third time, 6 hours the fourth and so on. 

Results? People would still rather I acknowledge their “hi” than tell me what they want.  

Some anecdotes of how “efficient” communication is:

1. A guy wanted access to a portal that I managed. He pinged me a “hi” every morning for 7 straight days before actually asking me what he wants. 
2. Another person wanted to understand git commands that can be used to solve merge conflicts. But not before pinging “hi” for 4 days, then just pulling me into a call with their manager and their manager pinging me a “hi” when I declined the call. 
3. Another person wanted an update on a ticket I closed 2 years ago. All he wanted was a change request number, which he could find using control + F on the Jira portal. He chose to send “hi”s to multiple team mates of mine when I didn’t respond. 

Ultimately, I started telling people to not just ping and disappear and that they can reach out to me. But I guess old habits die hard and I still receive multiple “hi”s. 

Merko unkin”hi” lag gayi. 

Also, before you scream at me for ranting about such a piddi problem. https://nohello.net/en/ is the thing.

Folks that ping “hi” and disappear

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My story -
So I switched to a startup last year. I was initially super excited in solving problems. Asking questions and just being curious about everything in general.
   Then, some incidents of my manager's behavior and team folks has turned me into a person who is so fucking afraid of now asking questions, doing tasks. My stakeholder communication sometimes I miss on, some things that seem to be pretty obvious had I been my competent self of previous organization, I am missing out on.
   I don't communicate well simply because I don't want to face my current manager and team. There's huge disconnect as well. I am not at all excited to work everyday. 
 
My friend was miserable in my previous org but now after switch he's damn happy and doing good!

I want to know if this is something that happens with you all? Or are you all like you fit in everywhere?
Or is it just My problem and my incompetence? Because I am always reminiscing my past org and my performance there was exceptional!

Has anyone ever faced a situation where you perform excellent in some org but not in another?

Consultant

Hello everyone, I am a PM from Uber ⚫️, I just want to share a very interesting story I came across today...

Origins:
Slack began from a failed gaming company which was building an MMO game called Glitch. During the development of Glitch, the team faced challenges with internal communication and collaboration.  

They fundamentally understood that developing a tool that solves this has a much higher potential at making it big.

Key Strategies: 
1. Design a product that is much better than anything out there.
2. They embraced the open ecosystem and allowed third party developers to create integrations and apps, something that we still use for internal tooling MVPs here at Uber.
3. Slack spread virally through word-of-mouth recommendations from satisfied users, particularly within tech startups and small teams.
4. While initially targeting small teams and startups, Slack later shifted focus to enterprise customers, offering features and security measures required by larger organizations.

Achievements:
Slack changed the way teams communicate and collaborate, disrupted the enterprise communication market.

PM Case Study: How Slack transformed itself from a Gaming Company into one of the most popular team communication platforms...

Program Manager

The new features in slack really makes it one and only place to do your everyday tasks.
You can connect with your colleagues 
You can do a huddle, can share shreen too
You can create canvas which is basically like a confluence page
You can even create boards in canvas to track your tasks 
and many more

Somewhere or other i feel that if atlassian do that, they'll have a great advantage over the competition, because many companies already use their products

Atlassian competition with slack

Hi , this post is intended to be a disclaimer to anyone who is planning to join Yubi. A lot of things are happening here that show some signs of an impending layoff

1) Several senior folks in tech and product have quit. Also there is no replacement hiring planned for them. Several projects are also getting shelved as a result.

2) there were several open roles a few weeks back and almost all of them are on hold as of now across all depts( tech , business , ops)

3) rampant cost cutting. The lunch options have been reduced to just 1 dal , 1 veg , rice and chapati.  Snacks have been removed too.


Because of several folks quitting in less than 6 months and no replacement hiring , load has increased tremendously on existing members who are themselves trying to leave. 

People have serious doubts on whether any hike or bonus will be given or not this year.

Rampant negativity at Yubi

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Like is Telegram used by anyone to stay in touch with friends/family? Or is it a simpler Discord?

Genuine question: Does anybody use Telegram for anything apart from stock tip groups/research groups/super large groups etc.?

Corporate Strategist

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How’s it going? Which channel are you most bullish on? Which is the latest growth hack on social which no one knows? 

Please share some nuggets.

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