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Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by yborg »

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?

Want some more examples of the awesome that is the Slack desktop app? Have a single animated emoji on screen in a channel. Just visible in the currently active channel. The Slack app is using ~30% of the CPU in my 2016 MBP, even when it's in the background. I quiver at the thought of the awesome that will be available when Slack's valuation hits $20B.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by devin »

No one else has mentioned zoom.us here. For my money, it's easily the best of its kind for multi-person video chat. The UI could be made a bit easier to navigate, but beyond that, it's a fantastically well-built piece of software.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by simplehuman »

devin wrote: post #132

No one else has mentioned zoom.us here. For my money, it's easily the best of its kind for multi-person video chat. The UI could be made a bit easier to navigate, but beyond that, it's a fantastically well-built piece of software.

The zoom mobile app is truly a disaster

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by omginternets »

At the risk of being confrontational, is usable VoIP going to come at some point?

Not only do I systematically get dropped calls, but also enraging UI bugs, e.g.: interrupting calls from other apps (whatsapp, phone, google hangouts, etc.) fails to put the slack call on hold and renders the "hang up" button ineffective.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

abrowne wrote: post #122
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #116

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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?

Not really. It doesn't function the same. Doing Command + Tab on a Mac shows them as the same application so you can't switch that way, you still have to use Command + ~ which is unlike all other apps in function as well as key combo. Also features like expose show the same framing around each website so if you have enough things open the only visual queue is a very tiny preview of the website which, depending on what you need to use, isn't always clear (at least not for me on my 13" MacBook).

It's a workaround that I do use but it's not a substitute I'm afraid. Windows handles this a little better, IMO, but it's still not great and the occasional crash of a web browser tab still sometimes takes the whole thing down.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by npolet »

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…

I wouldn't call tabs a usability horror show with the reason you stated. Surely you can just drag a tab off the tab line and then you have it in its own window. Ready for you position however you want, in the full control of the window manager.

It's so easy to separate tabs into their own window and utilise the window managers control.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by netzone »

twothamendment wrote: post #121
joeblau wrote: post #39

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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 rig…

Have you looked into Discord? Not sure about their Linux availability, but it can do all of the above, also voice channels. They don't have video/screen share right now but it's apparently something they're working on. It's also more free than Slack.

That might not be a good thing though, since it's unclear if $5 monthly will be able to support them over time.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by vladev »

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.

We've been using Zoom for the past 2 years and their Linux support is outstanding. Not the prettiest of UIs, but very reliable.
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