Show HN: Use Slack for Everything

Post by Thlom » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 5:37 PM UTC

oakesm9 wrote: post #11

lwhalen wrote: post #3

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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 proficien…

Post by wcummings » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 5:50 PM UTC

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…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 6:40 PM UTC

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.…

Post by davexunit » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 7:29 PM UTC

Post by snuxoll » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 7:37 PM UTC

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)