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Well there's part of the problem. "Should I use Slack or this long list of open source options, all trickily alike?" The open source team (which I would prefer
by seagreen 11y ago
Well there's part of the problem. "Should I use Slack or this long list of open source options, all trickily alike?"
The open source team (which I would prefer to win) would do much better if their message was "use this one, canonical, excellent option."
- akerl_ 11y agoYou say that like there's not fragmentation on the closed-source side as well, with Slack, Hipchat, Skype, etc. The reason there's competition is because ~"let's only field one perfect option" sounds great if you think you're the one with the perfect product, or you're a user whose needs are exactly like that product's pitch. In reality, user needs are diverse: there's no singular perfect product.
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- ajross 11y agoRealistically Slack's market share of the "IM technologies used by teams" world isn't that high anyway. I'm willing to bet that they remain well behind IRC even in their own market. All of this is a response mostly to buzz. Slack looks great, and is absolutely popular. So we (the open source community) want something "equivalently buzzworthy" while forgetting that we are, in fact, the entrenched monopoly already. I'm not losing much sleep, nor will I be retiring my IRC client or pastebin links any time soon.
- seagreen 11y agoIn general you're totally right! In this particular case though, note the title of the article. Wouldn't it be much more convincing as "A Superior Alternative to Slack (Which Happens to be Open Source)"? EDIT: You're second point definitely does apply here though.
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoI think it should absolutely be noted that being open source is a key mark of superiority over Slack.