Hi, my name is Carolyn and I am in too many Slack teams. Over 13 and counting! 😅 Although I only log into about 7 every day, that’s only because Slack at that scale just doesn’t work well for me.
I have Slack Overload.
The Kubernetes Slack is partly what motivated me to create this app. I am in some SIG channels for work and have to pay attention to them for my job. I really don’t want to be answering questions and having them disturb my Sunday mornings because… it’s work. Other channels I am in just for fun, and I’m always up for DM’s from my friends in the community.
The tools to control when Slack beeps at me just weren’t cutting it: manually muting/unmuting individual channels, logging in/out over the weekend. Try managing that for over a dozen Slack teams. 😱 Often I would fallback to the nuclear option of setting my computer on Do Not Disturb instead.
Unfortunately Slack doesn’t seem to understand my work schedule either. Which is a bit odd since it is weekdays from 9am-5pm. I can schedule Do Not Disturb for nights, but when my coworkers chat on the weekends… I get notified. Since I am on a globally distributed team and some coworkers are one day ahead of me, my Sunday is interrupted pretty much every. single. week. 🤦♀️
To top it off, with any channel it just takes one stressful day and too many gif happy people for me to mute it, forget for months that it was muted, and then feel left out
I love Slack. Slack is what makes my world possible. But I really need a big button to shut Slack up sometimes. All of them. 😉
That's what Slack Overload is.
My big button to make everything quiet for just a bit.