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The issue is that people want to use things backed by a slick marketing campaign. This is why we have Slack instead of IRC, Facebook instead of talking to your
by chdjdjdnc 10y ago
The issue is that people want to use things backed by a slick marketing campaign. This is why we have Slack instead of IRC, Facebook instead of talking to your friends the old fashioned way, etc.
- forgotpwtomain 10y ago> This is why we have Slack instead of IRC We have slack instead of IRC, because IRC sucks. Consider in order to have offline history I'm logged in permanently via. tmux session on a server which I connect to with Mosh. Weechat is a barely okay client (totally not suitable for non-technical users and Mosh still has significant delay). What do you expect the non-engineering part of the company to do?
- Bromskloss 10y ago> We have slack instead of IRC, because IRC sucks. Just the other day, a friend created a Slack channel (or whatever it's called) for a group of friends to plan a trip, and then promptly set up an IRC tunnel so he wouldn't have to use it. :-) I don't have an opinion myself; I just find it to be amusing.
- johnbm 10y agoI don't recall ever seeing a Slack ad. I just noticed more and more things starting to set up Slacks for their own purposes. The same tired "marketing" argument was used to try and explain Apple's success mid 2000s. It was equally wrong there, as evidenced by how everyone copied all of Apple's choices in touch UI and device form factors. Slack offers: - Multi-device presence - Unread tracking - Email notifications - File upload to cloud storage - Inline previews - Profile pictures Most of all, all of this just works by installing one app. I really don't understand why, years down the line, people still insist marketing is more important than stuff that actually works well. Except denial.