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Screenhero co-founder here. We're committed to making Slack Calls better, and have a number of upcoming improvements in the works.

49531 9y ago
Yea I found the window a bit harder to control as well. I'm also really bummed because I'm not sure how I am going to help my little sister learn to code now that we can't screenhero together. Not gonna make a paid slack channel just for that.
- tedmiston 9y ago
  Maybe a shared online "cloud IDE" fits your use case? Something like https://glitch.com/ https://glitch.com/.
- ballenf 9y ago
  TeamViewer still has a free personal level account option, although its days seem numbered based on how much harder is to find on their website now.
- macintux 9y ago
  If you're both on Macs (I know, not a safe assumption) there's a trivial screen sharing facility built in.
tedmiston 9y ago
Glad to hear it! Keep up the good work. I've been a huge fan of the Screenhero product since the first time someone showed it to me several years ago.
dkersten 9y ago
Thanks for making screenhero, it’s been one of my most used applications and I love it. I would have gladly personally paid a monthly subscription for it. But this news makes me very sad. Slack runs like garbage — it’s slow, it has CSS rendering issues (for a desktop app... ugh) every so often, it uses waaay too much RAM (I’ve had it use 4gigs... I’m sorry but chat is never the primary thing I do on my computer, that is not acceptable) — the slack track record when it comes to performance has been pretty bad, so forgive me if I don’t hold my breath. I hope I’m wrong...
FLGMwt 9y ago
Hi there. Thanks for building a truly great product and congrats on the acquisition. I know your hands are tied to some degree about all this, but I'll make a plea regardless. We use Screenhero regularly. It is the critical tool for enabling remote collaboration which is a big deal for our distributed teams (all of them). Our corporate firewall blocks Slack. Plenty of us are upset about that, but it's life for us. As of December 1, we can't use Screenhero anymore and this will be pretty disruptive for us. We'll find some way to deal, but this is disappointing.

49531 9y ago

Yea I found the window a bit harder to control as well. I'm also really bummed because I'm not sure how I am going to help my little sister learn to code now that we can't screenhero together. Not gonna make a paid slack channel just for that.

tedmiston 9y ago
Maybe a shared online "cloud IDE" fits your use case? Something like https://glitch.com/ https://glitch.com/.
ballenf 9y ago
TeamViewer still has a free personal level account option, although its days seem numbered based on how much harder is to find on their website now.
macintux 9y ago
If you're both on Macs (I know, not a safe assumption) there's a trivial screen sharing facility built in.

tedmiston 9y ago

Glad to hear it! Keep up the good work. I've been a huge fan of the Screenhero product since the first time someone showed it to me several years ago.

dkersten 9y ago

Thanks for making screenhero, it’s been one of my most used applications and I love it. I would have gladly personally paid a monthly subscription for it. But this news makes me very sad. Slack runs like garbage — it’s slow, it has CSS rendering issues (for a desktop app... ugh) every so often, it uses waaay too much RAM (I’ve had it use 4gigs... I’m sorry but chat is never the primary thing I do on my computer, that is not acceptable) — the slack track record when it comes to performance has been pretty bad, so forgive me if I don’t hold my breath. I hope I’m wrong...

FLGMwt 9y ago

Hi there. Thanks for building a truly great product and congrats on the acquisition. I know your hands are tied to some degree about all this, but I'll make a plea regardless. We use Screenhero regularly. It is the critical tool for enabling remote collaboration which is a big deal for our distributed teams (all of them). Our corporate firewall blocks Slack. Plenty of us are upset about that, but it's life for us. As of December 1, we can't use Screenhero anymore and this will be pretty disruptive for us. We'll find some way to deal, but this is disappointing.