Slack alert interrupted me out of the zone again. Where is the mute feature?

Slack alert interrupted me out of the zone again. Where is the mute feature?(vid.bina.me)

4 points by vidbina 10 years ago | 2 comments

jasonkester 10 years ago |

It's surprising that so many developers install the notification stuff for these sort of things. Why would you consciously sign up to be interrupted during the work day?

Slack is especially bad, as it has no filters whatsoever. Looking over at that tab in my browser, it always has an asterisk next to the icon, and usually an exclamation point telling me about a Very Important Direct Message that is invariably somebody in another timezone saying "Good morning @channel!"

It's the sort of thing that deserves checking a few times a day. Why you would configure it to pop up desktop notifications or make noises on you phone is beyond me.

vidbina 10 years ago | |

Slack does the notification thing by default there is not real option to opt out. On the contrary most teams with non devs on -board swear by this app. Slack happens to ignore the "Do Not Disturb" mode, which is pretty much respected by all other applications that throw notifications. Basically there is no convenient way to silence notifications yet while the application runs.

But you're right. I have resorted to checking Slack just few times per day as well rather than being online constantly.