I find that if you don't respond in real time people around you adapt to that. If you always respond instantly, it lowers the barrier for them to bother you more. So, you'll be dealing with them constantly. If you simply delay your response, they'll adapt and be less likely to interrupt you.
But there are always people who insist on having their entire conversation at the top level of the channel rather than in a thread, so everybody gets notified for every message (unless they mute the whole channel).
/me shakes fist at cloud that looks like the face of a past team lead
just make every thread a channel, and "channel" should be a folder
In email analogy - you want dedicated mailbox for every conversation? Nonsense.
Lbotos: okay @jane you are leading expert on problem y. Use this thread for your debugging until next sync
Lbotos: @phil your up for rebooting all the hosts. Ack this message and thread your work here. Please get started ASAP.
Lbotos: others, is there anything else that we need to get unblocked?
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By having one channel you can leave that open and can be up to speed on the overarching state easily. Otherwise, if I'm making subchannels I gotta make sure to invite everyone to the sub channel or switch to the “meta coordination channel” to get unplanned collaboration.
Threads have value.
And if it’s as it sounds and you are one of the people who always has full conversations in the root of a channel where other people use threads, please reconsider.
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this way some channels I would set to notify of all the things once every 2 hours, unless @mentioned
Some channels would be once every 4 hours.
I don't need (nor want) to react instantaneously to anything and everything that occurs in a channel, thread, or direct-message chat... and especially not for that one senior co-worker who submits each discrete sentence in their indefinitely long stream of consciousness.
"Mute" is not an answer, because I do need to be notified of activity... But I'd rather get a single minute-delayed "boop" about multiple events than a stream of instant and sporadic mad chittering.
I have channels that I ignore and read ~once a day but there's often still not a great signal to noise ratio. Something more detailed than "x new messages" would be helpful.