Resistance to Slack was predictably futile, and now we are assimilated. I was not among the resisters. Nothing floats my boat like powerful team-enabling software, and I'm having a ball exploring the nooks and crannies of Slack.
How it may alter our team dynamics I can't yet say. One thing I'm curious about is search. The Google mailing list method we've been using can quite capably index and search all team communication. To route messages into a searchable archive, you simply cc: an alias. But you must cc: an alias. The default for intracompany transparency is opt in, not opt out. We'd rather push the toggle the other way, but Google doesn't enable it, so the searchable archive winds up incomplete.