This one burns. Slack is excellent in so many ways, but it really wants to become a noise machine that drowns you in alerts and simultaneous demands for your attention.

I second this

I would consider you fairly fortunate if slack is the worst piece of software you use.

agreed - it's a massive cpu hog for a basic chat client... it excels primarily at turning my macbook into a toaster

I only use the web version. The native version is a resource hog (or was, when I last tried to use it).

The network connection quality on Slack calls seems to be very lacking compared to other call apps.

How is it possible that I have to spend perceptible amounts of time to search/view logs? I didn't ever have this problem in the 90's or 00's.

There are a couple issues I have with slack. Threads and message editing.