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Taylor A Murphy's avatar

I do love the point about algorithmic curation of Slack. It's one of my struggles with Mastodon... sometimes I want the reverse chrono feed, but quite often the algo on twitter shows me things I do like.

The challenge is training the algo on what the business needs and not what gets attention. The worst thing you could do is have tik-tok for Slack which just shows me all of the content that appeals to my monkey brain (whatever that may be).

I use reminders a lot in slack to get to inbox zero but then inevitably I have a list of messages to triage in my slackbot channel which isn't a great experience oftentimes.

I have to plug https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#slack as well - we had a 90 day retention policy at GitLab and I would've loved to see an even shorter one. There was nothing better for forcing a more async and documentation-first culture in my opinion.

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Greg Meyer's avatar

Still waiting for Slack to produce a digest feature like https://getlowdown.com/

What I'd like to see:

- show me the most important message in the last x hours, based on recency/frequency of interaction

- show me the conversations where I needed to engage

- show me the top 3 conversations where my input was not necessary

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