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Re: Slack's 404 page

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In case you don't know, the team that made Slack first made a computer game called Glitch ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(video_game) ). Slack was borne out of the chat system from Glitch. I believe this 404 page is meant to be reminiscent of that game.

Interesting... Discord had practically the exact same beginning!

Re: Slack's 404 page

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post #18
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's as if they care more about pretty and shiny than quality code.

It's as if the fact they are the prettiest and shiniest chat app is a big reason they got that much venture money in the first place.

Yup. It's a got to be about balance, though. Personally I find their app fast enough, and it never ·rarely) gives me issues.

Re: Slack's 404 page

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For those not in the know, once upon a time a guy named Stewart Butterfield and some friends tried to make a game, called Game Neverending. Somehow they ended up making Flickr instead! Later, he tried again, this time to make a game called Glitch. Again, he failed, and somehow ended up with Slack. That's why Slack's 404 page is like this ("you found a Glitch!"). To further confuse things they sold the name Glitch off to Fog Creek Software who is now using it as the new name for Gomix, which is the new name for HyperDev.

One of these days that guy will actually succeed in making a game. Until then here's hoping his failures continue to be so successful.

Re: Slack's 404 page

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Now that this is on HN I bet their error log monitoring is going to go berserk. There's probably an Ops guy trying to figure out where all the 404s are coming from :)

Re: Slack's 404 page

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention this is a fucking sidescroller that lags during the transition. It's 2017 and they can't get it to scroll fluidly.

What browser are you using? It's perfectly fluid for me in Safari.

I'm on the latest version of Chrome and it's choppy.

Re: Slack's 404 page

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Am I the only one who's like -- you've raised $80M (another $250M on the way?), this 404 page exists, and yet your app still uses over a Gig of RAM for my rather pedestrian work uses? What gives?

They've raised like $800M! Source: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slack#/entity

omfg, it was worse than I remembered ;)

Re: Slack's 404 page

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post #21
post #9

In case you don't know, the team that made Slack first made a computer game called Glitch ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(video_game) ). Slack was borne out of the chat system from Glitch. I believe this 404 page is meant to be reminiscent of that game.

Interesting... Discord had practically the exact same beginning!

I believe Mattermost also had similar beginnings...
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