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Screenshots look just like Slack or Discord. Why didn't they use Slack or Discord? What does Puppet have to do with any of this?
by bluesnowmonkey 9y ago
Screenshots look just like Slack or Discord. Why didn't they use Slack or Discord? What does Puppet have to do with any of this?
- neximo64 9y agoFor one thing Slack takes and exceedingly long time from app open to being able to see messages. The guys over at Slack spend more time accommodating for loading catch phrases like 'you look nice today' than actually loading faster..
- annexrichmond 9y agoBecause Slack is really expensive. Perhaps they concluded that an in house solution would be cheaper for them long term.
- mrmondo 9y agoLikely privacy, cost and performance.
- true_religion 9y agoSlack is for "small" teams. They've got 10,000+ people in a 'group' since this isn't just for engineering staff, but also for drivers, customer support reps, etc. These guys aren't split into lots of multiple teams under one big company, they're all just one 'team' with people leaving and joining fairly often due to driver turn-over. Slack would cost ~$100,000 a month at those numbers as well (given enterprise level discounts).