Nick Tomic breaks down how Face2Face.io

5 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Nick Tomic explains why round-robin task assignment breaks down in Slack, Teams, and Discord. When notifications hit a shared channel, everyone sees them at once, turning assignment into a first-come-first-served race instead of fair distribution.

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Okay, so interesting thing that we found out is that the round robin method is cool when you're working with a phone system, right? But because we're working inside like Slack channels, Teams channels, Discord, right? You have multiple people inside one channel. And so what we do is we send the notification to the channel and everybody sees it and it's on a first pick, first come, first serve basis., right? Where we actually create that kind of like that sports, you know, mentality where like trying, everyone's like competing to get the lead. So yeah, that, that's, that's kind of what we figured out.