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Slack, please! Stop making features. You're bloating your product. It was fine, don't add more things I don't need.
by finnjohnsen2 3y ago
Slack, please! Stop making features. You're bloating your product. It was fine, don't add more things I don't need.
- hotnfresh 3y agoThey're probably chasing Teams, where it's more of a platform for all your stuff than a chat app. You can edit word documents in Teams, for god's sake. MS project management tickets open directly in Teams if you click a link. Meetings scheduled over email generate Teams private chats with all the people in them (this is a cool feature but is backwards of what would be ideal, but that's another topic) and all kinds of other automatic stuff—if you use enough other MS shit. And, notably, it's really bad at being a chat app, which is probably where Slack is headed if they keep going.
- city41 3y agoI do question how wise it is for such an essential tool (I am in Slack all day, every day, all the time at work) to be driven by profit. I've always expected the choices Slack has made were because their tests and metrics show they are profitable. I even have a small script I run that hacks the JS source code to remove a feature that infuriates me.
- myaccountonhn 3y agoBigger issue is that you try to catch a big audience first and then turn your platform into crap to become profitable once you have that audience.