Personally I prefer slack over email. I basically don't read emails anymore and just mass delete them once a month. I get so many auto generated ones I barely even check.
The quality of email has such a low signal to noise it is becoming a waste of time to even check.
Off topic but related to communication. I wish voicemail could be an opt out thing, I haven't listened to a message in a decade.
Auto-generated emails are not the fault of email itself. Just avoid signing up for shit and if you need to sign up then take 5 minutes to visit your account settings on that platform and uncheck any notifications/spam-letters you don't care about.
I personally have only one or two auto-generated emails a week, at most, and all of those actually require my attention (expired credit card, etc). The other ones are either disabled or filtered away at the server level before they even reach my client (thanks to rules in Office 365).
> I wish voicemail could be an opt out thing, I haven't listened to a message in a decade.
Set your outgoing message to state that you never check them and that people should @ you on Slack instead.
> I get so many auto generated ones I barely even check.
That's not emails fault, that's your fault for not using the tool properly. All clients have filtering and blocking options. If you don't want the mails, tell the sender to stop sending them.
You usually can turn it off I think. One of my colleagues' greeting states that you should _not_ leave a message, followed by 2 minutes of silence, to put off all but the most committed.
(Or maybe it's the way that people use #Slack. Which isn't strictly Slack's fault, but still, ...)
I sort of miss when we would have internal WG-specific mailing lists, which were archived, web-available and searchable. Anyone could join (almost) any group they wanted. It was threaded (of course), and people tended to write longer more complete responses (with no reaction emoji!).
Don't get me wrong - I love slack for the CI/CD stuff, and as a monitoring dashboard for all sorts of alerts that various parts of the various teams might be interested in, but it doesn't really replace the use-cases that email is actually pretty good at (in my opinion).
The idea that slack should replace email was always a laughable one. It's just another communication channel - people who had let their email become an unmanageable mess needed a new app that wasn't a mess yet. Now people are realizing that slack can be just as much of a mess if you let it get out of control.
