That’s fair, but even between slack and IRC I much prefer IRC for real time collaboration and any chat app for one on on conversations.
Slack threads are the worst thing to happen to IRC. Pick a modality. Is it a real time conversation or asynchronous threads? And then having one on one and group collaborations in the same place means both are done poorly.
It also means the notifications for both get mixed together. I want to get notified when someone posts to a group in slack, and I also want to get notified when I have a direct message, but not at the same time.
I love threads. They're lightweight channels. In large, busy channels it allows parallel conversations. I see no reason a thread would be strictly asynchronous or real time. That's an organizational expectation. And anyone who expects real-time responses outside of a call needs to come back down to Earth.
Slack threads are the worst thing to happen to IRC. Pick a modality. Is it a real time conversation or asynchronous threads? And then having one on one and group collaborations in the same place means both are done poorly.
It also means the notifications for both get mixed together. I want to get notified when someone posts to a group in slack, and I also want to get notified when I have a direct message, but not at the same time.