Why we’re betting against real-time team messaging
<i>A small, but impactful design choice we made in creating Twist was to leave out the online presence indicator.</i><p>I imagine you could address this in Slack by just having everyone set themselves to &#x27;Away&#x27; by default.<p>One of the things that I&#x27;ve found useful in Slack is turning off the &quot;Someone is typing&quot; message (the option is in the Display Options). I used to wait for someone to post if I knew a message was coming. Now I can drop in and out of a channel more easily. Similarly, I&#x27;ve muted almost all the channels I&#x27;m in so now I only <i>need</i> to check if someone notifies me.<p>The point I&#x27;m making is that Slack doesn&#x27;t necessarily work the way you want right away, and that you might need address a few cultural problems with the way your team uses it. You need to think about how your team communicates, consider <i>why</i> people do annoying things in it, and come up with solutions that work. At the most extreme that might be writing a competitor product but for most companies there just needs to be a little more tolerance of people not answering immediately and a little consideration that gifs can be unhelpful.