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Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack

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Re: Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack

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Post by levemi »

Klathmon wrote: post #57
levemi wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh, the number of downvotes I'm seeing for a contrary opinion to article about something not really controversial is also pretty weird. Seems like evidence of a concerted promotional push on HN to be honest, if only anecdotally.

I'm sorry but from where i am it's not "contrary opinions" being downvoted, it's useless dribble. Hell one of the downvoted comments is just "IRC comes to mind"... Just hand waving away all of the problems that something like slack is trying to solve, which the article talks about.

It's not even that great of an article, and yet it's the top post on HN? I hope at least dang looks at the data. I'm sorry it's pretty suspicious. Like what is so notable about this post that it warrants being at the top? Above the living social layoffs and the various other way more interesting things on the front page right now.

Worst case, it turns out being a legit article, in which case it's cool. Eh, no big deal.

Re: Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack

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Post by whitegrape »

Klathmon wrote: post #40
tribaal wrote: post #28

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Maybe slack gets enough momentum to overtake IRC. Right now it looks a lot like Google Wave to me.

You are seriously out of touch if you really believe that.

Yeah, comparing it to Google Wave probably is a bit too much. In my neck of the tech woods HipChat is still pretty hip. I suspect that by the time we discover Slack, something else will have taken Slack's place as the new wave. Meanwhile I'll just keep visiting the same IRC channels outside of work that I have been frequenting for a decade. Will Slack be around in 10 years? Maybe. Will it be the poster-boy of internal chat? Unlikely.

Re: Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack

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Post by detaro »

levemi wrote: post #51
Klathmon wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't make them an "apologist"...

Eh, the number of downvotes I'm seeing for a contrary opinion to article about something not really controversial is also pretty weird. Seems like evidence of a concerted promotional push on HN to be honest, if only anecdotally.

The first few times these discussions were interesting. But for every submission mentioning Slack, somebody has to come and claim that IRC is all anybody ever needed, and all the arguments have been rehashed over and over. The alternatives mentioned in the article on the other hand are barely discussed at all.

Re: Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack

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Post by auntyJemima »

cookiecaper wrote: post #43
auntyJemima wrote: post #30

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Revolution? Drinking the kool aid much? My team has it. We've had it for a month or two now. There has only been a handful of posts and most of them are "TGIF" posts.

>Drinking the kool aid much? As you can tell from my post which states that Slack doesn't offer anything unique or special, uh, no, I'm not drinking the kool-aid.

I realize you're skeptical too, but I'm saying I wouldn't even go as far as to call it a revolution. Call it a trend if you'd like, that's giving it too much credit.
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