Teams Using Slack

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Originally Posted by Ernst

You can replace a decent number of those long email chains with an app like SimplePoll in Slack- you can quickly ask a question and people just have to click on an answer. For example, I've used it to find the best date to schedule a meeting and to get an idea of who would be interested in an event. So you can really condense and organize those responses and filter out the "Reply-all" notifications and mess while still keeping everyone in the loop.

Text responses are a lot easier to see, too. Instead of people adding different bits to the subject line ("Re:Fwd:RE:re:FWD...") and adding in all of their signatures and generally making a mess, you just have a name and a response.

I guess since all of that is possible with email (Google Apps integration, etc.) I don't see the pull. Maybe other people have problems with changing a subject like, but in our serious team communications (read; not just goofing off for fun) it isn't an issue. Changing the subject so that the chain splits off is a really useful feature to talk about related topics in different threads.