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"Integrations.. are a gimmick" I disagree, some are. Giphy, though a pleasure to have on the team is a gimmick. Hubot is an essential member of the team. Ou

by swalsh 11y ago

"Integrations.. are a gimmick" I disagree, some are. Giphy, though a pleasure to have on the team is a gimmick. Hubot is an essential member of the team. Our company is deploying pretty much all day, and the integration of our deployment system with the bot scripts make things so much easier.

krisdol 11y ago
Agreed. We have custom integrations with Sensu and Kapacitor to alert us about HTTP 500 errors, services with high resource usage, scheduled tasks that didn't succeed, etc.
pavel_lishin 11y ago
> Giphy, though a pleasure to have on the team I couldn't disagree more. I hate giphy integrations, and I disable them in any room I have any control in. It becomes abused far too easily, and the results are so rarely relevant. "/giphy high five" will return a gif of someone high-fiving 30% of the time, and will return nonsense garbage the rest of the time, prompting people to try, try again, flooding the room with animated images of celebrities, minions, or whatever other garbage someone has uploaded and tagged poorly. And that's not counting the one jackass who just gets bored and starts flooding the room with random gifs. (That happens much more rarely in work-dedicated channels, but it makes off-topic rooms a chore.) 100% gimmick, 0% pleasure.
- piquadrat 11y ago
  > "/giphy high five" will return a gif of someone high-fiving 30% of the time, and will return nonsense garbage the rest of the time Try https://rightgif.com/ https://rightgif.com/. Although it's one of those products that make you think tech startups have finally jumped the shark, it works surprisingly well.
- dvanduzer 11y ago
  > control This is the heart of the issue. If you are in a room that you don't like being in, then leave the room. Communicating with other humans is difficult. If your team can't come to an understanding about how you have fun together, then you have much bigger problems.
  - pavel_lishin 11y ago
    > If you are in a room that you don't like being in, then leave the room. ... unless it's actually a work room that just happens to have lax rules about what is and isn't appropriate. ... unless you're a remote employee, and it's one of the only ways to build team cohesion outside of 100%-work conversations.
    - dvanduzer 11y ago
      A room that you want to leave, but can't, is usually called a Prison. Escape the room, already!

by swalsh 11y ago

krisdol 11y ago

Agreed. We have custom integrations with Sensu and Kapacitor to alert us about HTTP 500 errors, services with high resource usage, scheduled tasks that didn't succeed, etc.

pavel_lishin 11y ago

> Giphy, though a pleasure to have on the team I couldn't disagree more. I hate giphy integrations, and I disable them in any room I have any control in. It becomes abused far too easily, and the results are so rarely relevant. "/giphy high five" will return a gif of someone high-fiving 30% of the time, and will return nonsense garbage the rest of the time, prompting people to try, try again, flooding the room with animated images of celebrities, minions, or whatever other garbage someone has uploaded and tagged poorly. And that's not counting the one jackass who just gets bored and starts flooding the room with random gifs. (That happens much more rarely in work-dedicated channels, but it makes off-topic rooms a chore.) 100% gimmick, 0% pleasure.

piquadrat 11y ago
> "/giphy high five" will return a gif of someone high-fiving 30% of the time, and will return nonsense garbage the rest of the time Try https://rightgif.com/ https://rightgif.com/. Although it's one of those products that make you think tech startups have finally jumped the shark, it works surprisingly well.
dvanduzer 11y ago
> control This is the heart of the issue. If you are in a room that you don't like being in, then leave the room. Communicating with other humans is difficult. If your team can't come to an understanding about how you have fun together, then you have much bigger problems.
- pavel_lishin 11y ago
  > If you are in a room that you don't like being in, then leave the room. ... unless it's actually a work room that just happens to have lax rules about what is and isn't appropriate. ... unless you're a remote employee, and it's one of the only ways to build team cohesion outside of 100%-work conversations.
  - dvanduzer 11y ago
    A room that you want to leave, but can't, is usually called a Prison. Escape the room, already!