On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Glyph <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2016, at 1:42 PM, Robert Collins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > FWIW, I won't be switching to gitter or slack - I find the push > notifications and always-on experience exhausting. It gets in the way > of thinking or doing anything useful. I often leave my phone in > priority-only mode to shut facebook and twitter and such things up for > hours - or days - at a time. > > > If you read my blog, you'll know this already – I also find Slack tiring in > exactly this way. I acknowledge the usability benefits over IRC, but the > effect of those benefits is mostly just prompting me to spend more time > staring at chat. Which is not what I want to be doing.
It's in the service's best interest to constantly grab your attention because it provides a false sense of dependence. It's why Gitter spammed me, it's why Slack emails me everytime someone says @channel, and it's why I've uninstalled Twitter from my phone (so I don't get 2 or more notifications for someone trying to interact with me there). _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
