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Screen hero was innovative and it looks like the control aspect of things got abandoned I'm still mad about this. It was such a great piece of software, and th

by NickM 6y ago

Screen hero was innovative and it looks like the control aspect of things got abandoned I'm still mad about this. It was such a great piece of software, and then Slack bought it and literally killed it without offering anything to replace the lost functionality.

pmart123 6y ago
Screen Hero was light years ahead of anything on the market a few years ago. I'm not sure why they didn't integrate it into a simple feature button in Slack.
- chimeracoder 6y ago
  > Screen Hero was light years ahead of anything on the market a few years ago. I'm not sure why they didn't integrate it into a simple feature button in Slack. They claim they did, but Slack screensharing is nowhere near what Screenhero's was. A more Screenhero-like replacement is Tuple: https://tuple.app/ https://tuple.app/
  - llaolleh 6y ago
    I'm not really a fan of Tuple. It seems like a poor man's version of Screenhero.
    - Nuzzerino 6y ago
      Interesting, I found Tuple to have amazing quality and latency. Best I've seen with such a tool.
noneeeed 6y ago
This is one of the small number of takeovers (along with Sparrow and Dark Sky) that actually make me angry, because they deprived everyone of something really great, for little apparent benefit. The fact that so many people use Slack, but then do all their voice, video and screensharing in Zoom or some other tool says a lot about Slack as a tool and company. My wife uses Teams for work. It's rubbish in many ways, but when she's using it they do everything in it. Somehow slack has failed at this despite having many of the same features built in.
- ptrklly 6y ago
  What happened with Dark Sky? I have used it for years and it seems just as good as ever. And it’s one of the few iPhone apps I give full location information to so I like that it’s owned by Apple since they have that info anyway.
  - pcr0 6y ago
    The fact that they shut down the API and Android app.
    - ptrklly 6y ago
      Ah, of course.
  - deleted 6y ago
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- irrational 6y ago
  Why do you say Teams is rubbish? We used it for the better part of a year before moving to Slack (corporation wide mandate). So far my opinion of Slack is that it is rubbish. I never had any issues with Teams, but Slack has been a nightmare for me. I don’t get updates and notifications about channels I’m following like I should. It doesn’t work anywhere near as well on my phone as Teams did. I’m not a MS lover (I was a web developer during the first two browser wars and the standards war and still have bad feelings towards MS), but Teams seems to be really well put together. I’m interested to hear why you disagree.
  - Jochim 6y ago
    Not the parent, but it's far too easy for your IT department to totally fuck teams up. Our Teams instance has the calendar disables making it a pain to join meetings if you don't have easy access to your outlook calendar. They've also disabled any sort of api access which really limits what can be done in terms of integrating it into our other workflows. In terms of general usability the app is lacking in information density. I routinely miss messages in team channels I've collapsed.
nateabele 6y ago
Then maybe knowing that Screenhero's founders went on to create Screen[0] will assuage some of the anger. Also, maybe it doesn't make it better, but it sounds like Slack didn't intend[1] to do this. [0] https://screen.so/ https://screen.so/ [1] https://www.notion.so/Screen-Making-WFH-Work-57df16351a884bca8027f049698eb2ce https://www.notion.so/Screen-Making-WFH-Work-57df16351a884bc...
- CMCDragonkai 6y ago
  Can it record?
- tyre 6y ago
  Tangential anecdote, the ScreenHero founders were in the same 4 unit apartment building as our first office at ZenPayroll/Gusto. They're amazing humans. We were all happy for them when they got acquired, and I'm glad that they get to do their thing now that the promise of Slack didn't work out.

by NickM 6y ago

pmart123 6y ago

Screen Hero was light years ahead of anything on the market a few years ago. I'm not sure why they didn't integrate it into a simple feature button in Slack.

chimeracoder 6y ago
> Screen Hero was light years ahead of anything on the market a few years ago. I'm not sure why they didn't integrate it into a simple feature button in Slack. They claim they did, but Slack screensharing is nowhere near what Screenhero's was. A more Screenhero-like replacement is Tuple: https://tuple.app/ https://tuple.app/
- llaolleh 6y ago
  I'm not really a fan of Tuple. It seems like a poor man's version of Screenhero.
  - Nuzzerino 6y ago
    Interesting, I found Tuple to have amazing quality and latency. Best I've seen with such a tool.

noneeeed 6y ago

This is one of the small number of takeovers (along with Sparrow and Dark Sky) that actually make me angry, because they deprived everyone of something really great, for little apparent benefit. The fact that so many people use Slack, but then do all their voice, video and screensharing in Zoom or some other tool says a lot about Slack as a tool and company. My wife uses Teams for work. It's rubbish in many ways, but when she's using it they do everything in it. Somehow slack has failed at this despite having many of the same features built in.

ptrklly 6y ago
What happened with Dark Sky? I have used it for years and it seems just as good as ever. And it’s one of the few iPhone apps I give full location information to so I like that it’s owned by Apple since they have that info anyway.
- pcr0 6y ago
  The fact that they shut down the API and Android app.
  - ptrklly 6y ago
    Ah, of course.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
irrational 6y ago
Why do you say Teams is rubbish? We used it for the better part of a year before moving to Slack (corporation wide mandate). So far my opinion of Slack is that it is rubbish. I never had any issues with Teams, but Slack has been a nightmare for me. I don’t get updates and notifications about channels I’m following like I should. It doesn’t work anywhere near as well on my phone as Teams did. I’m not a MS lover (I was a web developer during the first two browser wars and the standards war and still have bad feelings towards MS), but Teams seems to be really well put together. I’m interested to hear why you disagree.
- Jochim 6y ago
  Not the parent, but it's far too easy for your IT department to totally fuck teams up. Our Teams instance has the calendar disables making it a pain to join meetings if you don't have easy access to your outlook calendar. They've also disabled any sort of api access which really limits what can be done in terms of integrating it into our other workflows. In terms of general usability the app is lacking in information density. I routinely miss messages in team channels I've collapsed.

nateabele 6y ago

Then maybe knowing that Screenhero's founders went on to create Screen[0] will assuage some of the anger. Also, maybe it doesn't make it better, but it sounds like Slack didn't intend[1] to do this. [0] https://screen.so/ https://screen.so/ [1] https://www.notion.so/Screen-Making-WFH-Work-57df16351a884bca8027f049698eb2ce https://www.notion.so/Screen-Making-WFH-Work-57df16351a884bc...

CMCDragonkai 6y ago
Can it record?
tyre 6y ago
Tangential anecdote, the ScreenHero founders were in the same 4 unit apartment building as our first office at ZenPayroll/Gusto. They're amazing humans. We were all happy for them when they got acquired, and I'm glad that they get to do their thing now that the promise of Slack didn't work out.