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Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by bluetidepro »

mikelinington wrote: post #18

I see mentions of Screen Hero in a way that makes it sound like it's dead, but my team still uses SH daily (via Slack's `/hero` command). It's easily the best _remote pairing_ tool that I've found. This new Slack feature seems like something different, for presenting content to everyone on a call, not for collaborating on code.

You are correct that Screen Hero still works and all, but it is technically "dead." No one new can sign up for the service. You can only use it if you already had it setup. I would personally consider that "dead" if it's now closed off for anyone to signup with. It's not like you can recommend this as alternative to what Slack is doing with their screen sharing.

On https://screenhero.com/login they even say "New signups are closed while we integrate with Slack." - I consider that "dead."

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by ajmurmann »

mikelinington wrote: post #18

I see mentions of Screen Hero in a way that makes it sound like it's dead, but my team still uses SH daily (via Slack's `/hero` command). It's easily the best _remote pairing_ tool that I've found. This new Slack feature seems like something different, for presenting content to everyone on a call, not for collaborating on code.

I also still use SH extensively. However, it's clearly at best in maintenance mode. A few weeks ago it was broke from some time Saturday to Monday afternoon. I spent probably the hours in total on two different projects with two different pairs to get sooner other acceptable solution to work before SH became functional again. I'd rather pay for it and have it be reliable. Signing up for it is also not creating trust when I try to bring new people to use it with me.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by mikelinington »

bluetidepro wrote: post #21
mikelinington wrote: post #18

I see mentions of Screen Hero in a way that makes it sound like it's dead, but my team still uses SH daily (via Slack's `/hero` command). It's easily the best _remote pairing_ tool that I've found. This new Slack feature seems like something different, for presenting content to everyone on a call, not for collaborating on code.

You are correct that Screen Hero still works and all, but it is technically "dead." No one new can sign up for the service. You can only use it if you already had it setup. I would personally consider that "dead" if it's now closed off for anyone to signup with. It's not like you can recommend this as alternative to what Slack is doing with their screen sharing. On https://screenhero.com/login they even say "New sign…

I've dropped the Screen Hero binary to a few people (even outside of my Slack org) and they were able to sign up via the app even after that message appeared, but you're totally right, we're on borrowed time.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by numbsafari »

richardwhiuk wrote: post #20
bluetidepro wrote: post #10

As someone else mentioned, they are finally doing some more with their purchase of Screen Hero most likely. However, one major feature that Screen Hero had that I don't _THINK_ this new screen sharing built in Slack has, is the ability for the other person to control the mouse/keyboard on your screen. I could be wrong, but if that is the case it's a huge feature missing. That was one of my favorite things that Screen…

Presumably also just sharing a single window which is very useful (e.g. for PowerPoints).

I almost exclusively share single application windows. Sure, on Mac OS you can turn on "Do not disturb" while presenting, but it's too easy to have information from other customers, or internal, show up when you don't want it to.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by dgavey »

EpicEng wrote: post #16
macspoofing wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whooosh

Yes... not the only one though. Not a very obvious joke. Also, just checked slack on my Mac: 38MB memory usage, 4 open groups and many channels. So, not a good joke either?

Check the helpers, the main app is low, but it's likely over 1GB of RAM in use with the helpers.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by tommi »

bluetidepro wrote: post #10

As someone else mentioned, they are finally doing some more with their purchase of Screen Hero most likely. However, one major feature that Screen Hero had that I don't _THINK_ this new screen sharing built in Slack has, is the ability for the other person to control the mouse/keyboard on your screen. I could be wrong, but if that is the case it's a huge feature missing. That was one of my favorite things that Screen…

I like Slack but I'm bit hesitant to have it the ability to control my mouse and keyboard all the time. Slack is so popular that there are certainly lot attacks against it and that could be one of the biggest exploits. I really hope operating system side sandboxing features mature and I'm able to control if and when software has access to such features.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by austenallred »

ChrisClark wrote: post #15
bluetidepro wrote: post #10

As someone else mentioned, they are finally doing some more with their purchase of Screen Hero most likely. However, one major feature that Screen Hero had that I don't _THINK_ this new screen sharing built in Slack has, is the ability for the other person to control the mouse/keyboard on your screen. I could be wrong, but if that is the case it's a huge feature missing. That was one of my favorite things that Screen…

That was basically the entire point of Screen Hero. So I hope this is only the first step in integration with Slack.

Screenhero was such a fantastic product. I miss it every day.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by pbw »

It says you can only share your entire screen. That's fine from a laptop, but if you have a 4k/5k display sharing to people with laptops, wouldn't the text be unreadable? Sharing just a single window is the standard solution here.
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