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> Slack are mostly trying to convert people who have never used instant messaging in the workplace to using it daily Not sure it even goes that far. They're t
by lowercased 6y ago
> Slack are mostly trying to convert people who have never used instant messaging in the workplace to using it daily
Not sure it even goes that far. They're trying to convince corporate gatekeepers to adopt it, and 'more features' sells to them. The avg person in charge of deciding to use slack at a company is likely not going to care if memory usage impacts other stuff on the users' systems.
re: the google docs sharing thing - I really hate it, because I'm pretty much always asked this question, and I say 'no' or remove the alert, then I'm asked again next time. And the next time. And across every org i have to use slack for. Either use 'corp' or 'room' preferences for this, or remember and respect my own preferences. Quit asking something repeatedly.
- danpalmer 6y ago> They're trying to convince corporate gatekeepers to adopt it This is definitely the "enterprise sales" area where they seem to be doing a lot of work now, but a few years ago it was much more about finding an evangelist on a team somewhere with a company card, the pricing was structured so that you could get to critical mass on a typical pre-approved expenses limit. > re: the google docs sharing thing - I really hate it, because I'm pretty much always asked this question, and I say 'no' or remove the alert Yeah I absolutely get this, but I'd say that in wanting to solve a repeated annoyance like this we're already in the minority. Most users would treat this as a feature – they don't need to find a solution because it just asks them every time and it's easy to click the button to make it do what they what it to do.