I stumbled across this article today and it really fits my experiences with Slack:
Someone in my organization thought it would be a good idea to implement Slack and I hated every minute.
First, the application is horrible. It feels like a badly coded webpage. Search is completely broken and illogical and at least at my organization, the chat was full of irrelevant noise and people constantly “introducing” themselves as they were added (even weeks after the channel launched).
For me, it is like an inefficient form of email. I much prefer asynchronous communication so I can check communications when I have finished other work. The expectation I found from my colleagues is that I should respond to Slack messages at any time. On a couple of occasions people even called me asking if I’d seen their Slack messages (I didn’t leave it open as I hate distractions).
I had enough and deleted the app. I do not need another social app in my life and this was one of the worst for interrupting productive focus. All this happened at the start of last year, not recently. A month later the channel was closed because so many people dropped out from the organization. All I heard were complaints from people of it bothering them and making more work and distraction.
Have others had a similar experience with Slack?