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Out of interest, is slack still being used as extensively as it was 4-5 years ago?

by chris_wot 1y ago

hestefisk 1y ago
No. Everyone is on Teams.
- DrBazza 1y ago
  Which is unfortunate, but a consequence of Microsoft's perennial, embrace, extend, extinguish - they embraced instant-messaging version 3 (or wherever we are now), and they're onto the extend part - extending Teams' reach by bundling it 'for free' in Office, and the OS, so people don't "need" to buy Slack. Slack won't be 'extinguished' but it will have a falling market share, despite the dumpster fire that is Teams, and the bean-counters in most corporations getting kudos from their bosses for 'cost savings'.
  - rvnx 1y ago
    The next victim is going to be Figma
  - high_na_euv 1y ago
    Teams are decent tbh Ive been using them since 2021 iirc and they improved a lot And im using Discord daily which is state of the art
    - queenkjuul 1y ago
      Teams is trash, don't lie like that. It's the single most frustrating piece of software i interact with at work.
      - high_na_euv 1y ago
        Im not lying, I dont have any problems with them Calendar and meetings are decent, chat is viable and I dont need more Whats causing problems for you?
        queenkjuul 1y ago
        Frequently fails to connect, doesn't honor system audio device settings and frequency forgets its own, frequently fails to mark messages as read, sometimes even after hitting "Mark all as read," sometimes fails to send notifications on new chats, especially on my phone. It's the least reliable chat program I've ever used.
edf13 1y ago
Yes - everyone hates teams
- nottorp 1y ago
  Teams is useless comparing to slack if you need to coordinate work indeed. I suppose you're supposed to use the whole Microsoft "ecosystem" for what a single app can do.
diggan 1y ago
> slack still being used as extensively Used differently I'd say, but can't say I have a 100% view of all the users. My feeling is that various software projects moved to Discord instead (particularly FOSS which feels strange), and Slack seen an uptake in enterprise usage which makes sense considering the new(-ish) owner.
bajsejohannes 1y ago
I don't know, but anecdotally, I still use it for work, but no longer for personal chats. It also seems like someone at Slack is tasked with driving up engagement, because I get these "Your team is missing you" messages from Slack (only to be find a dead slack community). That might be a sign that they're losing traction?
epolanski 1y ago
My company combines discord and teams. Discord is mostly used by devs.
v5v3 1y ago
Slack is a public company so you can read the financials.

Out of interest, is slack still being used as extensively as it was 4-5 years ago?

hestefisk 1y ago

No. Everyone is on Teams.

DrBazza 1y ago
Which is unfortunate, but a consequence of Microsoft's perennial, embrace, extend, extinguish - they embraced instant-messaging version 3 (or wherever we are now), and they're onto the extend part - extending Teams' reach by bundling it 'for free' in Office, and the OS, so people don't "need" to buy Slack. Slack won't be 'extinguished' but it will have a falling market share, despite the dumpster fire that is Teams, and the bean-counters in most corporations getting kudos from their bosses for 'cost savings'.
- rvnx 1y ago
  The next victim is going to be Figma
- high_na_euv 1y ago
  Teams are decent tbh Ive been using them since 2021 iirc and they improved a lot And im using Discord daily which is state of the art
  - queenkjuul 1y ago
    Teams is trash, don't lie like that. It's the single most frustrating piece of software i interact with at work.
    - high_na_euv 1y ago
      Im not lying, I dont have any problems with them Calendar and meetings are decent, chat is viable and I dont need more Whats causing problems for you?
      - queenkjuul 1y ago
        Frequently fails to connect, doesn't honor system audio device settings and frequency forgets its own, frequently fails to mark messages as read, sometimes even after hitting "Mark all as read," sometimes fails to send notifications on new chats, especially on my phone. It's the least reliable chat program I've ever used.

edf13 1y ago

Yes - everyone hates teams

nottorp 1y ago
Teams is useless comparing to slack if you need to coordinate work indeed. I suppose you're supposed to use the whole Microsoft "ecosystem" for what a single app can do.

diggan 1y ago

> slack still being used as extensively Used differently I'd say, but can't say I have a 100% view of all the users. My feeling is that various software projects moved to Discord instead (particularly FOSS which feels strange), and Slack seen an uptake in enterprise usage which makes sense considering the new(-ish) owner.

bajsejohannes 1y ago

I don't know, but anecdotally, I still use it for work, but no longer for personal chats. It also seems like someone at Slack is tasked with driving up engagement, because I get these "Your team is missing you" messages from Slack (only to be find a dead slack community). That might be a sign that they're losing traction?

epolanski 1y ago

My company combines discord and teams. Discord is mostly used by devs.

v5v3 1y ago

Slack is a public company so you can read the financials.