Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

I'm growing to the idea that chat is a bad UI pattern, period. It is a great record of correspondence, I think. But it is a terrible UI for doing anything.

In large, I assert this is because the best way to do something is to do that thing. There can be correspondence around the thing, but the artifacts that you are building are separate things.

You could probably take this further and say that narrative is a terrible way to build things. It can be a great way to communicate them, but being a separate entity, it is not necessarily good at making any artifacts.

Email threads seem better for documenting and searching correspondence.

The last counter argument I read got buried on Discord or Slack somewhere.

Oh, how nice it must be to complain about Slack. Try using Teams and you will never want to complain about Slack again.

Slack is way worse than Teams. I honestly rather dislike both and rather use email only, but will pick Teams over Slack any time.

how? scrolling up a conversation takes hours, this alone makes me cry if i have to use it