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> My company of 500 with only 30 devs uses it. Same at my workplace. Slack is mostly used by the managers, all the devs avoid it. Even if you don't mind the p
by as1mov 8y ago
> My company of 500 with only 30 devs uses it.
Same at my workplace. Slack is mostly used by the managers, all the devs avoid it. Even if you don't mind the proprietory protocol, the performance even on beefy machines is an absolute dumpster fire, that nobody wants to touch the app with a ten foot pole.
- pkaye 8y agoIts the opposite at my workplace. Mostly the developers use Slack. What do your devs use instead?
- katheriin 8y agoSlack definitely started from the software niche, but is far from the only player in the field. Others mentioned Mattermost, Discord, but really, there are so many viable options out there. See this list of 25+ alternatives for example: https://fleep.io/blog/best-slack-alternatives/ https://fleep.io/blog/best-slack-alternatives/ From cloud-based to self-hosted, open-source and commercial... As long as they integrate with the tools devs use, there will be devs who use it.
- g3rv4 8y agoWe use bonfire, which is the same tool the community at Stack Overflow uses to interact.
- miles_matthias 8y agoIs there a link to bonfire somewhere? You're not talking about Facebook's video call app are you?
- bluehatbrit 8y agoThis is as far as I've gotten with Google on a mobile phone. http://dev.bonfire.stackoverflow.com/beta-access http://dev.bonfire.stackoverflow.com/beta-access
- g3rv4 8y agoit’s this: https://chat.stackoverflow.com https://chat.stackoverflow.com but unfortunately, it’s not open source or available for other teams to use in private.
- kabacha 8y agoOh god it's an ugly, slow mess. - Why does it have list of users with their avatars and everytime new person comes in it has a huge, slow animation lol - ads for other rooms and quarter of the screen is "best comments top list" - the chat user avatars are unaligned, some are bigger, some smaller, some have usernames under avatare, some on the right. I'm not sure if it's a late april fools joke or what's going on here.
- nambit 8y agoMattermost.
- Slartie 8y agoAnother Mattermost user here. When Slack came up, some of our development teams picked up using it, because it was free and didn't have to be installed and because of "it was that hot new thing from Silicon Valley that all devs use now". Most people loved it. I've always been in the "we try to keep our other infrastructure mostly in-house for control/privacy/anti-lock-in reasons, so why add a dependency to an external service and push internal documents onto it while we don't even pay for that thing?" camp and therefore flat-out refused to use Slack until the issue of internal instant messaging got enough attention to be discussed on a company-wide level. It was agreed upon the need for such a service, but it was also recognized that the way in which Slack was used to serve that need was not sustainable and far from rational, so alternatives were discussed and we eventually settled on trying out Mattermost. Within weeks, all teams using Slack had moved over to Mattermost, and even most of the people who never wanted to use Slack for various reasons, including me, were okay with giving Mattermost a try. Most kept using it, so it has become a widely accepted part of our internal infrastructure now.
- 24gttghh 8y agoI see your 500:30 and raise you with 30:5 at my company. It's complete overkill.
- Aeolun 8y agoMy company of I dunno, with some 2000 devs uses it. Mainstream is the right word.
- Pistos2 8y agoI'm hardly a Slack fan, but, in fairness, I've never considered Slack to be slow or resource intensive. Either the web UI or the (OSX) desktop app. Or are you referring to audio calls and video calls?
- Marazan 8y agoSlack is ludicrously chuggy for basic operations. Why does it take so insanely long to start up?