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Discussion on: Is Slack (et. al.) Scalable

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Thomas H Jones II

Heh... I guess what I'm looking for is "how do larger orgs run their Slacks so they stay useful?" To date, we've mostly stuck to leaving channels public - even those that we share with other companies. Unfortunately, particularly in longer discussions or threads(and, well, Slack's "threading" feature is comically limited), it often feels like "wouldn't this be better done via email"?

It kind of feels like the "chat" model has an implied-casual nature that email doesn't. Particularly with discussions held in "public" channels, it seems like the whole "is what I'm saying well thought out and/or well-articulated" thought-process isn't really considered.

/shrug

Dunno. Seems like there could be better way to use the tool but I'm not sure how to encourage better habits?