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As you scale up the volume of messages gets out of control. You can’t read them all. My solution is I only guarantee to read messages in my team channels, or where I have been @‘d. Otherwise there is too much to catch up on. The boundaryless combo of watercooler, idea box, official docs and meetings notes means I am going to miss something important.

This is probably a holding it wrong issue. And a bit of “well the handle is shaped weird too so how do I hold it?”

Ephemeral conversions, like you have in the office might be a good solution. Maybe default Ephemeral (end of day loss unless you vote to keep) would force people to document meetings and decisions and stuff in the right place .




In my company every team has a private channel where most of the high velocity conversations happen. In most othersl channels the number of daily messages is in the single digits (excluding things like monitoring and alerts that we send to slack). Company size 200, mostly remote word wide.




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