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I disagree with you that Slack is an ergonomic interface. I'll give two examples off the top of my head: 1. New Threads sort with new items at the top.
by factotvm 8y ago
I disagree with you that Slack is an ergonomic interface. I'll give two examples off the top of my head:
1. New Threads sort with new items at the top.
This is opposite of everywhere else in the
app. And there is no indicator, e.g. the
date isn't displayed.
2. Try backspacing over an @ mention or two.
It is very unpredictable behavior.
I could find many more if I had Slack in front of me. I'm not saying that IRC is the solution, but I can't believe that Slack is the best we can do.
- always_good 8y agoI claimed it was ergonomic (at least more ergonomic than IRC since that was the comparison), not flawless. And many of those ergonomic points come from features that IRC clients don't even have.
- factotvm 8y agoAnd I'd rather use Vim.
- s0l1dsnak3123 8y agoMe too, but we're not the target demographic. In any case I think Matrix is the best bet for open communities right now - it has full slack integration anyway.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> Me too, but we're not the target demographic. Well, that's a problem. How is it that tech savvy people created a tech industry that increasingly caters to everyone except the tech savvy people? It's getting really annoying. Operating systems are gradually losing features. A lot of software moved to the web, shedding functionality, and they evolve towards dumber and less functional forms over time. Smartphones are getting locked down and dumbed down. Hell, the only smartwatch company that made tools instead of toys went down, and I can't get a sensible smartwatch either. I don't like this trend.
- badsectoracula 8y ago> at least more ergonomic than IRC since that was the comparison IRC is just a protocol, it is up to the client to provide a nice interface.