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		Benjammer on Oct 11, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happened when Buffer stopped using Slack on F... "But you don't _have_ to do X" "But you _could_ use it like Y" Stop with this. Why are you trying to force the square peg into the round hole so hard? Why do people like the idea of using Slack against how it's designed? These arguments are so tiresome.

RHSeeger on Oct 12, 2018 [–]

Can you explain why you think Slack is designed to be synchronous and have people constantly checking it? I don't feel like to pushes me in that direction at all.

AsyncAwait on Oct 12, 2018 | [–]

Because its design primarily pushes sync and while you can do async with it, many bosses treat is as an instant messenger.

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