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This. Power users (normally engineers) drove Slack usage at my last company. I'm now in an org that uses Teams and all the engineers want to use Slack. Likely w
by ck425 7y ago
This. Power users (normally engineers) drove Slack usage at my last company. I'm now in an org that uses Teams and all the engineers want to use Slack. Likely won't happen but it's important to note that this feature isn't just annoying a small segment of users, it's annoying the small segment that are most vocal about adopting Slack. And who due to economic power arguably have more influence.
- mattacular 7y agoThe problem with that is Slack no longer needs a small segment of vocal users. They used to, but now they're a huge established company with plenty of service contracts across tons of industries.
- rmsaksida 7y agoThat's true, but it can change. Just as tech users were vocal about getting people in, they can be vocal about getting people out.
- caoilte 7y agoThe exact same thing (WYSIWYG editor) happened with JIRA over ten years ago. And here we are...
- catalogia 7y agoI'm not sure how Oracle really squares with that theory. From what I've seen, courting executives can work pretty well for companies widely hated by users.
- mattacular 7y agoThey can be vocal about getting people out all the want, won't make them effective at it, especially if most people don't understand why power text editor users hate WYSIWYGs. Once contracts are inked and the whole company gets hooked on something like Slack good luck getting it back out.
- moe 7y agoOh, it can happen very quickly. Do you remember Skype? Everyone used to be on Skype. Who uses Skype anymore today?
- liveoneggs 7y ago"engineers" drove your company to spend money on a chat tool from a company that had leaked private chats, gave no real control over the interface, and used a closed protocol? Now those same people are complaining about it?