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No reason to look at Slack like that. It may be well worth the price. When company really starts using Slack it replaces the whole communication system of comp
by watt 7y ago
No reason to look at Slack like that. It may be well worth the price.
When company really starts using Slack it replaces the whole communication system of company, think at the level of replacing the complete Exchange/Outlook system, the whole intra-company email.
It's pretty big deal. And that's why they can charge that level of subscription.
- gibolt 7y agoCompared to a salary, it is nothing. If your company functions and people are more productive because of it, ~$80 a year is nothing.
- hedora 7y agoI’d be more productive without slack. It’s useful for distributed teams, and for incident response, but basic messaging + jira/github + zoom cover those use cases better. Slack was OK before the bot stuff and integration with ldap/email groups landed. Now, it’s at least as spammy as email, except not searchable, the (non customizable) UI is worse, and the social norm is that you spend 100% of the day checking a firehose of broadcast messages and machine generated spam (in some teams, even after working hours).
- csomar 7y ago> When company really starts using Slack it replaces the whole communication system of company, think at the level of replacing the complete Exchange/Outlook system, the whole intra-company email. That's exactly why I dislike Slack. You lose the whole history of your communication because Slack history is not very navigable.