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Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by artursapek » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 6:31 PM UTC

davideous wrote: post #19

Stand-alone ScreenHero sharing is smooth as butter -- truly amazing. Controlling a remote computer feels local. Right now I'm using the slack-integrated "ScreenHero", and it's really laggy. This is super disappointing, and painful to use. It's actually making the mouse pointer of the person sharing lag for them. Slack: please keep the stand-alone ScreenHero until you make the integrated one have the same performance.

Screenhero.com says:

> If you currently use Screenhero, you’ll need to migrate your team to Slack before December 1st, 2017. At that point, the stand-alone Screenhero app will no longer work — but you can enjoy the same features in Slack.

Sounds like they already have their plans set in stone.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by Mindstormy » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 6:31 PM UTC

I use screenhero daily for work and I am incredibly sad to see it go, even though we all knew this day was coming. It hits even harder for me since my company just moved us off of slack due to their lack of hippa compliance and cost issues, so not only is the standalone screenhero gone, I've lost the ability to use it in slack too. Does anyone have a good suggestion for an alternative?

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by s_kilk » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 6:35 PM UTC

sosuke wrote: post #10

adamwathan wrote: post #6

Really disappointing news, rolling Screenhero into Slack doesn't solve the same problem at all. I work for myself and have a large contact list of people who don't know each other who I often pair with or screenshare with. With Slack, there's really no way for me to create the same setup. I'd need to create a new team called "Adam's Screenhero Contacts", invite all of my contacts (who don't know each other) to be par…

They can't take control of your screen but I like https://appear.in/

I’ll second this, appear.in is great for lightweight small-group video chats.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by anfedorov » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 6:38 PM UTC

s_kilk wrote: post #23

sosuke wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can't take control of your screen but I like https://appear.in/

I’ll second this, appear.in is great for lightweight small-group video chats.

I think this might fall under "doesn't solve the same problem at all".

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by exhilaration » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 6:42 PM UTC

sosuke wrote: post #10

adamwathan wrote: post #6

Really disappointing news, rolling Screenhero into Slack doesn't solve the same problem at all. I work for myself and have a large contact list of people who don't know each other who I often pair with or screenshare with. With Slack, there's really no way for me to create the same setup. I'd need to create a new team called "Adam's Screenhero Contacts", invite all of my contacts (who don't know each other) to be par…

They can't take control of your screen but I like https://appear.in/

We use appear.in through our paid Slack accounts. I don't know how our admins set is up but we just type /appear in any channel/chat and immediately get a link.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by ballenf » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 6:44 PM UTC

davideous wrote: post #19

Stand-alone ScreenHero sharing is smooth as butter -- truly amazing. Controlling a remote computer feels local. Right now I'm using the slack-integrated "ScreenHero", and it's really laggy. This is super disappointing, and painful to use. It's actually making the mouse pointer of the person sharing lag for them. Slack: please keep the stand-alone ScreenHero until you make the integrated one have the same performance.

Late last year and early this year we used Screenhero daily. It was free, so I didn't expect too much, but my team had various connection issues daily on various OSs and locations. I stopped using it despite it being smooth as butter when it worked (which was 80%+ of the time).

Hopefully Slack's acquisition helps/helped them with those apparent scaling issues.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by austenallred » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 6:45 PM UTC

Can someone tell me how screenhero performs in a call of 50+ people? We teach classes, and Slack is our home base, so Screenhero would be great, but I’m not sure of how it scales.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by davideous » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 6:46 PM UTC

artursapek wrote: post #21

davideous wrote: post #19

Stand-alone ScreenHero sharing is smooth as butter -- truly amazing. Controlling a remote computer feels local. Right now I'm using the slack-integrated "ScreenHero", and it's really laggy. This is super disappointing, and painful to use. It's actually making the mouse pointer of the person sharing lag for them. Slack: please keep the stand-alone ScreenHero until you make the integrated one have the same performance.

Screenhero.com says: > If you currently use Screenhero, you’ll need to migrate your team to Slack before December 1st, 2017. At that point, the stand-alone Screenhero app will no longer work — but you can enjoy the same features in Slack. Sounds like they already have their plans set in stone.

If anyone from Slack is reading, I'm respectfully asking that they change the sunset date or invest the engineering effort to fix the performance regression before the sunset date.

Perhaps management didn't know how much of a downgrade this was.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by tarikjn » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 6:48 PM UTC

I wish this was forked instead of killed. Everytime I use Screenhero, it has been butter smooth.

I would be ready to pay $3/month for screenhero standalone or a pay-per-use. I'm not interested in Slack, the use cases are clearly different.

I think Slack missed or rather killed an opportunity here, they could have kept Screenhero (and use it to upsell Slack) and also integrated it in Slack. Not only that but it took them over 2 years to make this integration and in the meantime Screenhero remained invite-only.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by Osiris » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 6:54 PM UTC

davideous wrote: post #19

Stand-alone ScreenHero sharing is smooth as butter -- truly amazing. Controlling a remote computer feels local. Right now I'm using the slack-integrated "ScreenHero", and it's really laggy. This is super disappointing, and painful to use. It's actually making the mouse pointer of the person sharing lag for them. Slack: please keep the stand-alone ScreenHero until you make the integrated one have the same performance.

Why has "smooth as butter" become such an overly used phrase in the tech world? Listening to the last Apple product release I must have heard the word butter a few dozen times.

I don't know about anyone else but this phrase is really starting to annoy me. It's overly used, and the word "butter" in my mind is closer to "greasy", like "don't touch it with your finger because it'll get slimy and you'll have to wash your hands". Can't you just say "smooth" or "without any perceptible lag"?

EDIT: Seriously, this doesn't bug anyone else?