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Every program attempts to expand until it has an app store. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Every program attempts to expand until it has an app store. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Any examples of programs which has started out as an app in an app store, and then expanded into an app store of its own, and then the app store had swallowed the original app store?
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I see Google using Slack for things like the Dart and Kubernetes projects. I understand the ease of use aspect (Slack is quite nice) - but one thing that concerns me is that the discussion that happens is no longer (easily) searchable. Mailing list archives are handy when you are looking for a solution to a problem. With Slack, a lot of that knowledge disappears.
Do you even use Slack? I don't work for Slack but your comment is so misleading. > but one thing that concerns me is that the discussion that happens is no longer (easily) searchable. No it is not. Look at the top right and type your words. If you use free plan, only 10k message will be archived, other than that it will be deleted.[1] > Mailing list archives are handy when you are looking for a solution to a problem.…
Wonder if their stack is still PHP/MySQL etc?[0] [0] https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/426469205005705217
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I agree. We're building https://matrix.org (a free and open communication protocol) and we've realised that until we have a client with better UX than proprietary offerings, people just won't switch. We hope that a Matrix-enabled client ( https://vector.im is looking promising) will get the UI/UX right - and thus actually offer an open and free solution where you can run your own server (should you choose) and own an…
Wow. Vector is progressing along quite nicely! This new build has none of the rough edges that I remember from the last time I saw it. Congrats to the team for the awesome work! My biggest issue with Matrix still has to do with its privacy properties though. Homeservers simply know too much about their users. End to end encryption from clients to homeservers appears to be optional in Matrix (and even with e2e encrypt…
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Everything you said about notifications in HipChat is false. I first used HipChat more than 2 years ago, and the notifications worked perfectly and were as configurable as I wanted them to be. Offline notifications worked well. We tried Slack when it came out and couldn't figure out why anyone would use it over HipChat, since it had no native client at the time.
Sounds like HipChat has the unfortunate distinction of being the Friendster of the chat space, sometimes the gods are fickle.
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Everything you said about notifications in HipChat is false. I first used HipChat more than 2 years ago, and the notifications worked perfectly and were as configurable as I wanted them to be. Offline notifications worked well. We tried Slack when it came out and couldn't figure out why anyone would use it over HipChat, since it had no native client at the time.
We have been using HipChat for the last two years for one of our two major products at work and have very recently moved to Slack for the other. While notifications on HipChat work most of the time, they are still very patchy. I personally use the Mac client, while others in my company use the web, Windows, and Linux clients and we've all been bitten by missed notifications on applications one too many times to actua…
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Slack is one of my most annoying and least-effective tools because every single message has a pop up that blocks off a corner of my screen. Slack's notifications lack customization which makes them annoying. Either you get the whole package, intrusive desktop pop up and all, or you get no notification. Where's the option to have sounds but no pop ups? Where's the option to lump notifications so you don't get spammed?
Agreed. I wrote a blog post outlining a way to get around this. ( https://medium.com/building-things-people-want/slack-is-too-... ) The gist: turn off all notifications then flip them back on by channel. Still doesn't address de-coupling of pop-ups and sound, though.
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Agreed. I wrote a blog post outlining a way to get around this. ( https://medium.com/building-things-people-want/slack-is-too-... ) The gist: turn off all notifications then flip them back on by channel. Still doesn't address de-coupling of pop-ups and sound, though.
Loved the article. check out www.spacechatapp.com would love to pick your brains on how to filter through the noise. we're building it.
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Do you even use Slack? I don't work for Slack but your comment is so misleading. > but one thing that concerns me is that the discussion that happens is no longer (easily) searchable. No it is not. Look at the top right and type your words. If you use free plan, only 10k message will be archived, other than that it will be deleted.[1] > Mailing list archives are handy when you are looking for a solution to a problem.…
Are slack histories indexed by google, like mailing list archives or large IRC channels?