5 ms·

“Dear Microsoft” – Your Friends at Slack

28 points by chirau 10y ago

anotheryou 10y ago
what a weird tone
- bbctol 10y ago
  I'm not saying I think it's a good thing for companies to openly be at each other's throats, but it sure beats passive-aggressive insinuation.
  - anotheryou 10y ago
    So which of both is this? I think it's kinda both.
  - moogly 10y ago
    I found the post pretty patronizing, but maybe that's just me.
    - rednerrus 10y ago
      This was not addressed at M$ at all it was passive-aggressively addressed to Slack's users.
- ctvo 10y ago
  Agreed. Doesn't come off well for Slack.
- aq3cn 10y ago
  MS has been battling with Evernote by OneNote, Gsuite by Office 365, IFTTT by Flow, Dropbox by OneDrive, Facebook by Linkdin, Scribd by Docs or Sway, any to do apps by Wunderlist, Google by Bing, Google Hangouts by Skype, MacBook Pro or Chromebook by Surface etc. Looking at this picture, Slack's staff realizes the need to show their courage and capabilities to their users by this open letter. May be it is an attempt to gain empathy and have more loyal happy users. I am not sure but MS will be professional about his decisions and ignore this letter.
ShirsenduK 10y ago
Dear @slackhq, Please fix your push notification systems as people have to use Skype when Slack cannot get things done! Video/Screensharing should have a checkbox on your product map. Oh but you don’t have them. Damn! Best, Your Paying Customer
Tepix 10y ago
"an open platform is essential" I don't consider Slack to be an open platform...
anotheryou 10y ago
Is there a solution to this slack flaw?: addressing a single person regarding a project that has a channel: should I write in a PM or in the channel? In the PM I have to explain the context, it's hard to find it again because you will be looking for it in the channel and slack artificially blocks easily sharing the information to a third. In the channel I force the whole team to read my things that are quite irrelevant to them, in the worst case a small 1 on 1 debate will ring notifications for 10 minutes. If the rest of the team ignores them they also ignore any other notification that might jump in between. Or turn channel notifications off and only work with mentions? But than it would need some education to keep mentioning, even in huge IRC channels you sometimes forget...
ytpete 10y ago
Duplicate of this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12855291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12855291

28 points by chirau 10y ago

anotheryou 10y ago

what a weird tone

bbctol 10y ago
I'm not saying I think it's a good thing for companies to openly be at each other's throats, but it sure beats passive-aggressive insinuation.
- anotheryou 10y ago
  So which of both is this? I think it's kinda both.
- moogly 10y ago
  I found the post pretty patronizing, but maybe that's just me.
  - rednerrus 10y ago
    This was not addressed at M$ at all it was passive-aggressively addressed to Slack's users.
ctvo 10y ago
Agreed. Doesn't come off well for Slack.
aq3cn 10y ago
MS has been battling with Evernote by OneNote, Gsuite by Office 365, IFTTT by Flow, Dropbox by OneDrive, Facebook by Linkdin, Scribd by Docs or Sway, any to do apps by Wunderlist, Google by Bing, Google Hangouts by Skype, MacBook Pro or Chromebook by Surface etc. Looking at this picture, Slack's staff realizes the need to show their courage and capabilities to their users by this open letter. May be it is an attempt to gain empathy and have more loyal happy users. I am not sure but MS will be professional about his decisions and ignore this letter.

ShirsenduK 10y ago

Dear @slackhq, Please fix your push notification systems as people have to use Skype when Slack cannot get things done! Video/Screensharing should have a checkbox on your product map. Oh but you don’t have them. Damn! Best, Your Paying Customer

Tepix 10y ago

"an open platform is essential" I don't consider Slack to be an open platform...

anotheryou 10y ago

Is there a solution to this slack flaw?: addressing a single person regarding a project that has a channel: should I write in a PM or in the channel? In the PM I have to explain the context, it's hard to find it again because you will be looking for it in the channel and slack artificially blocks easily sharing the information to a third. In the channel I force the whole team to read my things that are quite irrelevant to them, in the worst case a small 1 on 1 debate will ring notifications for 10 minutes. If the rest of the team ignores them they also ignore any other notification that might jump in between. Or turn channel notifications off and only work with mentions? But than it would need some education to keep mentioning, even in huge IRC channels you sometimes forget...

ytpete 10y ago

Duplicate of this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12855291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12855291