Can't believe it took them 2.5 years integrate ScreenHero.
a mean and lean team of hacker news readers could probably knock out the integration in a weekend or two.
in two hours
Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
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Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
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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 wha…
So basically because MacOS usabillity is not good on multi window desktop apps and the browser doesn't sandbox correctly tabs.
I think you missed the part where I said Windows was better but still not great along with the issue of one tab crashing taking them all down (which still happens despite the separate process per tab).
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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…
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.
You still lose out on multiple features of the OS for Window management when you simply create more windows within an App. I addressed that here if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14355971
Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
In that case, there is no way to know if it took them 2.5 years or 6 months.
Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
#165So I'm glad they're doing something with the purchase. I LOVE screenhero. But right now...holy crap this is bad. Really crude benchmarks but I'm seeing an ADDITIONAL ~3.5gb of ram usage when screensarhing via slack. Checkout screenshots here. https://twitter.com/harisamin/status/864908004176658433 I know its beta, plz help improve this. I love both products
Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
#166No 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
their UI in general is a nightmare. Ugh.
Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
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Hangouts Chat / Meet [0] brings a lot, if not all, of this when it comes out. Meet keeps most of what hangouts video has today, but a better UI and uses hardware codecs when it chan. Hangout Chat is really a rework of the idea of hangouts. It brings a lot of functionality that people like from Slack (everything you mention I believe). Note that Hangouts today does have search sorta (it ain't great). If conversation h…
Are there any plans to have a decent API? Getting a script to post to Slack is trivial. Same with having a bot read all the messages in realtime.
From: https://blog.google/products/g-suite/meet-the-new-enterprise...
"The Hangouts Chat platform supports a wide range of capabilities — from bots to simple scripting using Google App Script — and integrates with third-party applications so teams can do more right from within the conversation."
That's I think all that has been said so far. More details will come once it's released.
Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
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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 pin the most important ones, then switch using cmd+1/2/3 to the one I need (would be nice to have feature to switch to -1,-2,-3 (aka last, second to last, etc) tabs
cmd+` to switch between different Chrome profiles/windows
option+shift+a/d to snap window to left or right
tiptap to switch between tabs when using trackpad
when slack notification comes up, just click on it and it takes me to the right Chrome tab
I do agree we need a better way to integrate tabs in native windowing
Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
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I wonder if their app is just a bunch of javascript wrapped in a web frame? That's how other 'apps' of such design seem to perform (atom etc...)
It is, with that web frame being Electron (Chromium + node.js): https://slack.engineering/building-hybrid-applications-with-...
Ok, well I'm willing to bet that's the problem then.
Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Command+~ as well as Command+1-9 solves this I believe.