I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
There are legitimate use-cases for @here though depending on how your company actually uses Slack. Where I work, most people take a batched-polling approach to checking Slack messages (that is, look every now and then, but don’t interrupt your work just for new messages) until they get either a DM or are tagged by a mention. Sometimes it’s still important to make sure everybody online sees a message now (for example, when announcing a code freeze in preparation for a release, or when documenting a known issue with your CI that means certain tests must be ignored temporarily), and @here is the only practical option for doing that...
@hereought to cause an electric shock.At least it’s better than
@channel...There are legitimate use-cases for
@herethough depending on how your company actually uses Slack. Where I work, most people take a batched-polling approach to checking Slack messages (that is, look every now and then, but don’t interrupt your work just for new messages) until they get either a DM or are tagged by a mention. Sometimes it’s still important to make sure everybody online sees a message now (for example, when announcing a code freeze in preparation for a release, or when documenting a known issue with your CI that means certain tests must be ignored temporarily), and@hereis the only practical option for doing that...We have people that do
@here I'm on the 10th floor, where is the copy machine?to the company wide#allchannel of 22,000 people.