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Best news in that article was a brief reference to video calls coming to huddles. Been finding huddles really useful but sometimes a quick chat moves onto a mo
by bengale 4y ago
Best news in that article was a brief reference to video calls coming to huddles.
Been finding huddles really useful but sometimes a quick chat moves onto a more full on discussion and most of the time now we move over to zoom for that so we can talk face to face. Being able to turn on video for these huddles will be great.
- muglug 4y agoIt is great! I work at Slack, where we've been testing that functionality for a while, and I use it for one-on-ones with remote colleagues. Huddles become like Zoom calls, but with much more context.
- fooby 4y agoIs there any love for discord style "drop-in" voice channels? I'm never going to start a huddle in a channel of 30 people and say "its optional" -- but with a voice channel, people can see we are idling / chatting nonsense and join as needed.
- paxys 4y agoIsn't that what Huddles already are? There's an indicator next to the channel name showing whether people are talking or not. You can choose to drop in if you want.
- fooby 4y agoIt sends a notification to everyone announcing they are invited - I want it to be like a water-cooler drop-in chat location, I'm the boss - if I press "huddle" I get 30 people join because Slack tells them "boss started a huddle"
- inhumantsar 4y agoSo create a channel called #drop-in and start a huddle?
- ckdarby 4y agoHuddle needs much love. It is not a first class citizen. Not even full API support for it :(
- jacobr1 4y agowhat else does it need?
- ckdarby 4y agoAPI, I want to get rid of zoom as much as possible. The lowest hanging fruit is being able to use huddle in calendar invites for daily standup. I can't even use Huddles apart of the basic workflows Slack offers. Once you have that you'll have habit forming behavior with your user and they'll reach for Slack huddle before zoom.
- vorticalbox 4y agoI really dislike huddles. For one I can never find where a huddle is at least with a call its pops a window up. I am consistently asked "can you join the huddle" only to reply "we'll where is it". Other little things annoy me like the huddle is a tiny square at the bottom left which makes finding the mute button harder. If someone shares their screen I now have to click a button to open it giving me the call window.