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Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by twothamendment »

joeblau wrote: post #39
owaislone wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lack of Linux support is the only thing preventing our organization from ditching hangouts.

What's wrong with Google Hangouts? (I don't have any perspective, just asking)

It isn't what is wrong with Hangouts so much as it is a list of things we like about Slack: 1) Channels - each message has a home. Notifications can be set to the correct level. 2) APIs/Integrations - We hook it up to github, pivotal, new relic, AWS and some of our own custom hooks. Reminders, alerts, messages - whatever we dream up that needs to be done and it is open enough to do it. 3) History 4) Past an image right in it without saving it as a file. 5) Voice calls.

Right now Hangouts is only for meetings where we want to share a screen or video chat. Most of the time a voice call is enough.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by abrowne »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #116
dzhiurgis wrote: post #107

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I don't get why people use Slack app. The whole Slack deal is to get away from desktop apps and run on the browser. This opens up freedom to start Slacks where corp is blocking app installs (but not zealous enough to be blocking/MITM'ing network yet).

Multiple tabs in a web browser flat out sucks for multi-tasking. macOS, Windows and many flavors of window managers for Linux provide many ways for switching between windows, seeing what's open, hiding things, etc. In a browser they're just straight tabs. Have you ever need to switch between multiple tabs semi regularly while keeping other tabs open? Have you ever wanted two tabs to be side-by-side? It's a usability…

Honest question: Can't you just open a new browser window then?

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by yeukhon »

adjkant wrote: post #118
yeukhon wrote: post #113

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Seriously, are you going to knock this out in a few weeks? Have you tried integrate someone else's giant codebase and their infrastructure? Also, integration does not stop other features and bugs from being implemented and fixed. Also they probably have a path to sunset the service and perhaps that means they need to think about future migrations.

Maybe not a few weeks, but 2.5 years seems pretty intense. Why not six months? I find it hard to believe they couldn't have executed well in six months if it was a priority. Clearly, it wasn't.

Because they want to take that long? Do you have an issue with that?

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by iamdave »

Our team is equally parts remote and in-office and we've had so many issues with hangouts for our daily stand-ups. Not picking up audio, screen just stops sharing, links outright breaking for unknown reasons. We're a slack house already and will be very likely switching to this after some internal testing to see how we like it.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by hobarrera »

Isn't slack videocalling in beta and still macOS only? I wish they'd finish implementing a feature [on all platforms] before moving onto other features.

As a team, we can't really use videocalling until the entire team can use it. It's really all-or-nothing.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by hobarrera »

tamalsaha001 wrote: post #120
erichurkman wrote: post #90

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Google Hangouts eats batteries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Google Hangouts uses so much chrome, it is very hard to see on a laptop screen.

You've a few choices: 1. F11/Fullscreen 2. /usr/bin/chromium --app="https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/shiftgig.com?authuser...

The latter opens a chrome-less hangouts window. 100% hangouts.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by hobarrera »

latortuga wrote: post #29

Still no linux support for video and now no linux support for screen sharing. Here's to hoping Google ramps up whatever Slack competitor they're trying to roll hangouts into.

The worst part is this even affects non-linux users. My team is about 80% macOS and 20% linux. We can't have meeting without 20% of the team, so Slack is useless.

You need to support everyone, or it all becomes pointless.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by hobarrera »

joeblau wrote: post #39
owaislone wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lack of Linux support is the only thing preventing our organization from ditching hangouts.

What's wrong with Google Hangouts? (I don't have any perspective, just asking)

Hangouts eats battery like mad. The UI/UX is still a big mess: there's really two hangouts webapps; one for calendar calls and one for ad-hoc calls, and that's a mess. Finally, it's nice to have one single tool, rather than multiple tools for this sort of thing.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by hobarrera »

amorphid wrote: post #50
joeblau wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with Google Hangouts? (I don't have any perspective, just asking)

No keyboard & mouse sharing. And to a lesser extent, not everyone wants a Google account. My employer also blocks some Google services. For example, I can't access Gmail. Trying to use Hangouts without Gmail is swimming upstream a bit.

> Trying to use Hangouts without Gmail

How are these two related (usage-wise, I mean)?

Also, is your employer paying a Google Apps subscription, but blocking email? WTF.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by dgellow »

zeptomu wrote: post #106

I always wonder if people would be interested in a small SAAS providing a terminal demonstration and sharing service with web and terminal client. Users could on one hand share step-by-step demos for common tasks on the terminal (say "Let's build $foobar on Ubuntu 16.04 optimized for the following infrastructure") similar to asciinema.org and on the other hand share there terminal read-only to demonstrate live-debugg…

So, you want tmate[0] with a web interface?

[0] https://tmate.io/

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