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> A simple feature like shared channels You think merging two or more organizations workspaces in a sane and secure manner after likely basing the entire app i
by thefreeman 6y ago
> A simple feature like shared channels
You think merging two or more organizations workspaces in a sane and secure manner after likely basing the entire app infrastructure around the idea of a single workspace is a "simple feature"? This is a textbook example of the classic HN comment "Why does this this company need X engineers to create Y product. I could do it in a weekend."
- 0xy 6y agoExcept I never claimed it could be done in a weekend, only that it shouldn't take 1,600 employees two years to roll out a single feature while the main app has severe problems (zero error handling during downtime). Then there's Slack's other "features", like the rich text editor nobody liked or wanted and that they initially refused to change. Look at Teams' trajectory in the same timeframe. Slack video calling is still bad. It's been years.