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If slack polled all their paying customers if inter-compatibility was important, do you think any of them would agree it was? As a slack customer I never had a
by adrr 4y ago
If slack polled all their paying customers if inter-compatibility was important, do you think any of them would agree it was? As a slack customer I never had any need to have cross app support for my internal chat tool. That would be a headache for my IT team supporting multiple apps.
- lmm 4y ago> If slack polled all their paying customers if inter-compatibility was important, do you think any of them would agree it was? Being able to use slack to talk with their clients / suppliers who don't use slack (and who often have their own preferred chat system) would definitely be important/valuable to many of them. Hell, I've worked at more than one place where you couldn't use slack to talk to a different department and this was an issue recognised by management.
- oceanplexian 4y agoThis isn't necessarily a bad thing. Not sure if there's a name for it but I would consider Slack a productivity hack that actually hurts productivity in the long run. Chat apps are like a quick fix for poor management, which leads to everyone interrupting everyone else due to lack of documentation or escalation paths. The P2P model works but it is wildly inefficient and no one ends up being held accountable. If Slack didn't exist, leaders would have to come up with documentation, rules and processes to shuffle work around, probably much more efficiently.