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Re: Show HN: Use Slack for Everything

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Post by oakesm9 »

lwhalen wrote: post #3
bluetidepro wrote: post #2

I'm not sure if this service specifically requires full access permissions or not, but I do know a ton of these (awesome/neat) plugins like this popping up require a company to give the plugin full write/read permissions. And for that reason, it's stopped our company from being able to use them. I'd be curious to see how many companies would actually allow a 3rd party service to have that full amount of permissions.…

Run an IRC server, configure a hubot. Yes, 'cloud'-based chat is pretty, but it's a new coat of paint over something that's been around for decades (IRC). For a company less than several thousand people, running your own singleton IRC server is about as complicated as setting up a basic 3-tier web application (i.e., a little fiddly, but not hard at all)

Yes it's not too hard or too different, but have you ever tried getting non-developers to use IRC? Finding a desktop client is confusing (which one is best being the first question) and even basic setup can be daunting (servers, ports, channels etc).

Slack, Hipchat and others however can be easily set up and used by pretty much anyone in a company. IRC is great for companies which only have very technically proficient employees, however that's not most companies...

Re: Show HN: Use Slack for Everything

#12

Post by cballard »

danpalmer wrote: post #7
lwhalen wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Run an IRC server, configure a hubot. Yes, 'cloud'-based chat is pretty, but it's a new coat of paint over something that's been around for decades (IRC). For a company less than several thousand people, running your own singleton IRC server is about as complicated as setting up a basic 3-tier web application (i.e., a little fiddly, but not hard at all)

Clients on the other hand are somewhat lacking for IRC. We use Slack in a company of ~30, and while all the devs could easily use IRC, most of the rest of the company would struggle with it, and certainly wouldn't be able to communicate in the wide variety of ways (uploaded files, images/gifs, videos, code snippets, etc) that they do now. Slack is great at making all those rich media types 'just work', and while it w…

On one hand, you're completely right, on the other, I wish I could block all GIFs from Slack (or just not get notified about them). That kind of thing doesn't help me get work done, which is what I'm at work to do - not to share funny pictures.

Re: Show HN: Use Slack for Everything

#14

Post by xena »

lwhalen wrote: post #3
bluetidepro wrote: post #2

I'm not sure if this service specifically requires full access permissions or not, but I do know a ton of these (awesome/neat) plugins like this popping up require a company to give the plugin full write/read permissions. And for that reason, it's stopped our company from being able to use them. I'd be curious to see how many companies would actually allow a 3rd party service to have that full amount of permissions.…

Run an IRC server, configure a hubot. Yes, 'cloud'-based chat is pretty, but it's a new coat of paint over something that's been around for decades (IRC). For a company less than several thousand people, running your own singleton IRC server is about as complicated as setting up a basic 3-tier web application (i.e., a little fiddly, but not hard at all)

Why not https://matrix.org?

Re: Show HN: Use Slack for Everything

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Post by thomastuts »

cballard wrote: post #12
danpalmer wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clients on the other hand are somewhat lacking for IRC. We use Slack in a company of ~30, and while all the devs could easily use IRC, most of the rest of the company would struggle with it, and certainly wouldn't be able to communicate in the wide variety of ways (uploaded files, images/gifs, videos, code snippets, etc) that they do now. Slack is great at making all those rich media types 'just work', and while it w…

On one hand, you're completely right, on the other, I wish I could block all GIFs from Slack (or just not get notified about them). That kind of thing doesn't help me get work done, which is what I'm at work to do - not to share funny pictures.

That seems more like a Slack setup issue than an issue with Slack itself, to be honest. We have a separate #random channel for stuff like that and have turned off notifications for it. It's still there, but it's much less intrusive.

You might also want to check out the settings in the Messages & Media section, specifically "Expand links to images, video and audio from external sources". That might help to disable the inline GIFs, although I haven't tried it myself.

Re: Show HN: Use Slack for Everything

#18

Post by joemaller1 »

joemaller1 wrote: post #16

What happened to the website icon fonts? They work in Chrome, but are giant Times New Roman text on Safari, both desktop and Mobile.

Looks like they trusted Google's recommendation and used WOFF2 which doesn't work anywhere but Chrome and Firefox.

- http://google.github.io/material-design-icons/#icon-font-for...

- http://caniuse.com/#feat=woff2

Re: Show HN: Use Slack for Everything

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Post by tarr11 »

d0m wrote: post #6

Looks like risky business to me since this is exactly what Slack is trying to do (Marketplace for commands)

Yeah, this already exists. Slack hasn't added many commands to their marketplace, but if this is at all successful, they will.

Don't see how this lives as part of the Slack ecosystem. Maybe their goal is to become standalone.

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