> Giphy, though a pleasure to have on the team

I couldn't disagree more. I hate giphy integrations, and I disable them in any room I have any control in.

It becomes abused far too easily, and the results are so rarely relevant. "/giphy high five" will return a gif of someone high-fiving 30% of the time, and will return nonsense garbage the rest of the time, prompting people to try, try again, flooding the room with animated images of celebrities, minions, or whatever other garbage someone has uploaded and tagged poorly.

And that's not counting the one jackass who just gets bored and starts flooding the room with random gifs. (That happens much more rarely in work-dedicated channels, but it makes off-topic rooms a chore.)

100% gimmick, 0% pleasure.

> "/giphy high five" will return a gif of someone high-fiving 30% of the time, and will return nonsense garbage the rest of the time

Try https://rightgif.com/. Although it's one of those products that make you think tech startups have finally jumped the shark, it works surprisingly well.

> control

This is the heart of the issue. If you are in a room that you don't like being in, then leave the room.

Communicating with other humans is difficult. If your team can't come to an understanding about how you have fun together, then you have much bigger problems.

> If you are in a room that you don't like being in, then leave the room.

... unless it's actually a work room that just happens to have lax rules about what is and isn't appropriate.

... unless you're a remote employee, and it's one of the only ways to build team cohesion outside of 100%-work conversations.

A room that you want to leave, but can't, is usually called a Prison. Escape the room, already!

Agreed. We have custom integrations with Sensu and Kapacitor to alert us about HTTP 500 errors, services with high resource usage, scheduled tasks that didn't succeed, etc.