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A large majority of people who use Slack disagree with you. I've never really had a problem with it and I actually enjoy Slack quite a bit.
by dimgl 7y ago
A large majority of people who use Slack disagree with you. I've never really had a problem with it and I actually enjoy Slack quite a bit.
- cosmotic 7y agoAny evidence of this large majority?
- lazzlazzlazz 7y agoCounter point: I've used Slack at several jobs and in several other group settings, and never met somebody who loved it. People like that they can message groups, separate threads into channels, but Slack the client feels like very slick enterprise software at best. (Contrast cases in the chat/productivity space: Discord, Telegram, Notion, Airtable, Coda)
- brazzledazzle 7y agoSlack and Discord feel really similar to me.
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- goatherders 7y agoUsing something does not mean liking it. I hate Slack with the fire of 1000 suns but still use it
- Someone1234 7y ago"It is popular therefore it cannot have these faults." Isn't a particularly strong argument against the critique.
- capableweb 7y ago> A large majority of people who use Slack disagree with you How do you know? Most people I know, uses Slack because that's the company policy, not because they find Slack the best option. But I don't think that's the majority of people, because is just my biased view, but probably it's the same in your case.
- blackandblue 7y agoslack and confluence :)
- ajkjk 7y agoI have... never met anyone in real life who doesn't like slack. I only hear negative opinions about it here.
- komali2 7y agoCome grab a coffee with me, I'm at 2nd and Howard, about a block away from the Slack office. Or just hang near the sidewalk, our windows are open and at some point my whinging about slack (or gitlab) should float down to the sidewalk.
- marblar 7y agoThis can't be true. I work on that block and haven't heard you.
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- gumby 7y ago> I have... never met anyone in real life who doesn't like slack. I only hear negative opinions about it here. While I have literal never discussed Slack with someone who likes it. Actually not completely true: at my last company one developer thought it was great but after a few months I heard her curse it as a "place information goes to die". In my experience it doesn't scale beyond a very small number of people who know each other well. Sending commands from its command line is not as easy as simply sending them from, you know, the command line (which is scriptable). As a side point it astonishes me that after all the money they raised and people they hired they can't get video working on mobile, just laptop/desktop.
- ProAm 7y agoI use slack because I have to but it's garbage.
- CameronBanga 7y agoAll of the people here disagreeing with you certainly haven’t worked in a large enterprise. Try locked down Teams and then let’s talk about Slack.
- jonas21 7y agoJust anecdotally, I've noticed a high correlation between: a) People who hate Slack b) People who hate open-plan offices c) People who can't imagine why anyone would ever have a different opinion than them on such topics
- BurningFrog 7y ago"Haters gonna hate Slack too"
- mpfundstein 7y agoSorry but how can you not hate open office plans?
- mpfundstein 7y agoSorry but how can you not hate open office plans. Its the most terrible workplace idea ever. In my company, everyone can work from home or gets own office. Period
- joshuahughes 7y agoMay I refer you to item 'c' in jonas21's list? ;-)