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What? Why are you protecting Slack business? Even at my company I was in charge to replace Slack because is damn expensive in comparison to other options like

What? Why are you protecting Slack business? Even at my company I was in charge to replace Slack because is damn expensive in comparison to other options like Teams or Rocket Chat.

rhubarbtree 2y ago
More expensive and more better.
- tester756 2y ago
  Is it? Discord seems to be way better Teams are good enough
  - etchalon 2y ago
    No one I know who has been migrated to Teams has been happy about that change.
    - wkat4242 2y ago
      +1. The only thing better about teams is that it comes 'free' with Microsoft 365. Though you can now take that without it for about 1.50 per month less. But slack costs a lot more. On paper they can do the same but slack is just so much better in terms of UX. Though i do hate that they dropped the IRC bridge. I have been active in slack communities a lot less as a result. I always have my IRC open but not slack.
      - rhubarbtree 2y ago
        For companies using teams rather than slack: why not use excel rather than a CRM? You'll save lots of money. Use Google hangouts instead of Zoom. Free videocalling, why worry about quality? It's not clear to me that you actually save money by using worse technology, if it takes more time to do stuff (after you've restarted teams three times to try to get share screen to work, for example).
        wkat4242 2y ago
        Yes but that money you waste doesn't come out of the budget of the guy proudly proclaiming to have saved a lot of money :) And it's very hard to quantify. Internalise the profits, externalise the negatives. It's what companies do but also what departments do within companies.
  - orphea 2y ago
    Discord seems to be way better You can't be serious. The search alone makes it atrocious for anything other than game servers. It's a problem enough people are trying to use Discord where they should have used proper forums.
    - tester756 2y ago
      Yet projects like LLVM use it
      - orphea 2y ago
        Large projects and companies are making dumb decisions all the time.
        tester756 2y ago
        How is this dumb idea when Discord is top1 communicator except maybe for search, but it isnt that terrible
        orphea 2y ago
        Because Discord is designed around near real-time communication, it simply doesn't work as a knowledge database. Unless, of course, you want to deal with the same questions again, and again, and again. In which case, sure, use whatever you want.
  - theasisa 2y ago
    I won't work for a company where I'm forced to use Teams. It is beyond awful
  - theasisa 2y ago
    I won't work for a company where I'm forced to use Teams. It is beyond awful.
nilamo 2y ago
> damn expensive in comparison to [...] why would you compare Slack to half baked products that have only some of Slack's features?
- waltercool 2y ago
  It depends about what you need. Rocketchat is mostly a clone of Slack for a quarter of the price. Teams may not be the exact solution but brings Sharepoint, OneDrive and Outlook into a same place. For most companies using Microsoft 365 is great as you can comply with security policies and easily collaborate and join meeting groups with other companies without extra accounts. Slack works fine for engineering teams, but still very expensive and not much professional for the corporate world.

What? Why are you protecting Slack business? Even at my company I was in charge to replace Slack because is damn expensive in comparison to other options like Teams or Rocket Chat.

rhubarbtree 2y ago

More expensive and more better.

tester756 2y ago
Is it? Discord seems to be way better Teams are good enough
- etchalon 2y ago
  No one I know who has been migrated to Teams has been happy about that change.
  - wkat4242 2y ago
    +1. The only thing better about teams is that it comes 'free' with Microsoft 365. Though you can now take that without it for about 1.50 per month less. But slack costs a lot more. On paper they can do the same but slack is just so much better in terms of UX. Though i do hate that they dropped the IRC bridge. I have been active in slack communities a lot less as a result. I always have my IRC open but not slack.
    - rhubarbtree 2y ago
      For companies using teams rather than slack: why not use excel rather than a CRM? You'll save lots of money. Use Google hangouts instead of Zoom. Free videocalling, why worry about quality? It's not clear to me that you actually save money by using worse technology, if it takes more time to do stuff (after you've restarted teams three times to try to get share screen to work, for example).
      - wkat4242 2y ago
        Yes but that money you waste doesn't come out of the budget of the guy proudly proclaiming to have saved a lot of money :) And it's very hard to quantify. Internalise the profits, externalise the negatives. It's what companies do but also what departments do within companies.
- orphea 2y ago
  Discord seems to be way better You can't be serious. The search alone makes it atrocious for anything other than game servers. It's a problem enough people are trying to use Discord where they should have used proper forums.
  - tester756 2y ago
    Yet projects like LLVM use it
    - orphea 2y ago
      Large projects and companies are making dumb decisions all the time.
      - tester756 2y ago
        How is this dumb idea when Discord is top1 communicator except maybe for search, but it isnt that terrible
        orphea 2y ago
        Because Discord is designed around near real-time communication, it simply doesn't work as a knowledge database. Unless, of course, you want to deal with the same questions again, and again, and again. In which case, sure, use whatever you want.
- theasisa 2y ago
  I won't work for a company where I'm forced to use Teams. It is beyond awful
- theasisa 2y ago
  I won't work for a company where I'm forced to use Teams. It is beyond awful.

nilamo 2y ago

> damn expensive in comparison to [...] why would you compare Slack to half baked products that have only some of Slack's features?

waltercool 2y ago
It depends about what you need. Rocketchat is mostly a clone of Slack for a quarter of the price. Teams may not be the exact solution but brings Sharepoint, OneDrive and Outlook into a same place. For most companies using Microsoft 365 is great as you can comply with security policies and easily collaborate and join meeting groups with other companies without extra accounts. Slack works fine for engineering teams, but still very expensive and not much professional for the corporate world.