Sounds way too familiar. I am generally amazed that people refer to Slack as chat AND asynchronous communication tools. The two are kind of opposite for me.
I too miss times when email was for longer async communication and chat/gtalk/irc was for ad-hoc brief chats or production incident triage.
I too miss times when email was for longer async communication and chat/gtalk/irc was for ad-hoc brief chats or production incident triage.