Slack Best Practices by Antonia Issa https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6 Questions, confusion, frustration en-us 2018-10-23 06:14:04 UTC 2025-10-28 14:02:21 UTC hello@padlet.com Lose track of stuff https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175394 2018-10-29 17:46:58 UTC https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175394 It's hard to find stuff with search https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175530 2018-10-29 17:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175530 Channels can become really chaotic https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175660 2018-10-29 17:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175660 Inconsistent Adoption https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175747 Annoyed me for a while when engineering insisted on Slack, because a lot of people weren't on it.]]> 2018-10-29 17:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175747 Pinned things don't seem to stay 'pinned'? https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175768 2018-10-29 17:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175768 God https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175770 Damn emojis]]> 2018-10-29 17:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175770 Can be a big source of distractions https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175811 2018-10-29 17:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175811 Overwhelming https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175938 Hundreds of channels I have some interest in - when to drop a channel or not]]> 2018-10-29 17:47:45 UTC https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175938 it's hard to keep track of multiple topic threads happening in one channel if people don't thread replies https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175942 2018-10-29 17:47:45 UTC https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298175942 Sometimes hard to know where to ask a certain question/post a certain message https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298176233 2018-10-29 17:48:11 UTC https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298176233 Some people don't follow basic rules around slack usage. https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298176558 2018-10-29 17:48:40 UTC https://padlet.com/antonia8/ogfhzvi5x1i6/wish/298176558