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Slack is a heaping pile of shit. I understand it lets you conduct text chat.. and basically works for that. But I don't understand the fawning. It's a massiv
by kev009 9y ago
Slack is a heaping pile of shit.
I understand it lets you conduct text chat.. and basically works for that.
But I don't understand the fawning.
It's a massive resource hog. People have inadvertently DoSed my browser by pasting a message rate that any native application like irc or jabber would yawn at.
- vacri 9y agoSlack's success comes from their buttery-smooth onboarding process, not the technical capabilities of their product. It's just so easy for a non-techie to set up an account with them.
- zionic 9y agoDiscord is a superior product to slack in every way I've ever used it. Including on boarding, it beats slack in it's core strength. The thing is discord has a stigma for "gaming" and slack for "work", and I can't get people to switch for that reason. It's so dumb.
- sumedh 9y ago> The thing is discord has a stigma for "gaming" Have you looked at discord's homepage, they specifically say its "Free Voice and Text Chat for Gamers"
- dijit 9y agoYou're learning an important lesson about marketing. There are many examples of inferior products winning due to marketing. Windows is one of them, x86-64 is another, AWS is a more modern example. (people are still very much on the hype train here though) Edit: I knew people wouldn't like me pointing at AWS;
- eightysixfour 9y ago> x86-64 is another Inferior to what and by whose standards? Itanium?
- dijit 9y agoItanium did get rid of a lot of the cruft of x86, but I'm talking specifically about PPC
- tenryuu 9y agoSuperior in every way? but all your accounts over each guild on discord is directly linked. Compare to slack which are kept all separate, with different user information, display pictures and the like. It's easier to manage your presence on slack than it is discord, because discord offer no assistance to those who handle multiple accounts or identities. As with other competitors, teamspeak solved this, irc doesn't have this problem at all. Skype does, doubt they will do anything about it, Microsoft have made another solution for team management
- com2kid 9y agoWindows 10. My browsers are consuming ~4GB of memory right now. The Slack app is taking up 130MB, currently signed in to two teams. To be fair, Outlook, which manages 3+GB of Email, is only taking 60MB, so old school does win out.
- eightysixfour 9y agoSlack starts a V8 instance for every team you sign into. It is absurd on my W10 machine. Running it on Edge is significantly better on battery life and it feels snappier.
- cakedoggie 9y ago> Slack is a heaping pile of shit. I agree 100%. But it is still my preferred messaging platform, much better than Skype for Business, lync, anything else I have used.
- Spivak 9y agoWe rolled out 'Skype for Business' and my lord is it a steaming pile of shit. Ignoring the fact that the UI is annoying, lacks basic features, fails to perform simple tasks like sending images, it's really the routing that makes loathe it. Have the app on your phone and your desktop? Step out of the office for a minute and get a message. See the message preview in your notification and tap it. It opens the app to an empty chat because it has now completely forgotten the message and it's sitting on your desktop. Everyone in our group got so fed up we set up a private team IRC server to route around this horrible platform.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoSkype for Business is Lync, with the Skype logo crudely painted on top. And Lync is...essentially a MS Outlook plugin.