Dave Teare, founder of AgileBits (makers of 1Password), writing over at Medium:
Slowly but surely this addiction has been killing my sanity and sapping our productivity as we simply used Slack for too many things. We decided it was time to try a new approach for communication at AgileBits ... With Slack we were more connected than we ever were before. We had 81 channels where anyone could talk to anybody in the company, and if the person you needed wasn’t in that channel, no worries, you could simply @ mention them and they would be added instantly.
Wonderful essay by Dave. Slack is the industry's love child these days but it's nice to see a dissenting view demonstrating some of the bad habits people can acquire using it. I can certainly see where Dave is coming from and have experienced some of the same pain points in my teams using Slack.
But lord, 81 channels for a 60 person team? That's just bananas.