How to make Slack less bad for you
He didn't mention one of my pet peeves: the "stratoscope, robertheaton, and dang are typing" messages below the input window. They draw you in to watching... nothing! I sit there slack-jawed (pun unintended, but I'll take credit for it anyway) waiting to see what - if anything - will eventually show up.<p>Even on #random.  It seemed like such a good idea at the time - keep "water cooler" chat out of the main channels. But what really happens is that all the fun stuff goes on in #random, so you pay as much or more attention to it as anything else. Who wants to be late for the party?<p>And there's the uncapitalized, unpunctuated, line-by-line stream of consciousness writing style I ranted about some time ago:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11239614" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11239614</a>