🔥 can be praise for something impressive, or a sign of an urgent problem. In a celebratory Slack thread it reads very differently from a status during an incident.
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:fire: 🔥 can be praise for something impressive, or a sign of an urgent problem. In a celebratory Slack thread it reads very differently from a status during an incident.
:fire: If you are handling an incident, make that explicit. Fire alone can look like enthusiasm rather than a reason you cannot reply.
For a launch or celebration.
For urgency without the praise association.
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