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

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Post by artursapek »

Osiris wrote: post #30
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…

butter is known to generally render at >=60fps

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

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Post by hbosch »

Osiris wrote: post #30
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…

"Smooth as butter", "smoother than butter", "butter smooth", et al is a common western phrase. It's as old or older than the King James Bible itself (Psalms 55:21 if you're curious). It's a quintessential English idiom.

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

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Post by wnevets »

Osiris wrote: post #30
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…

the top two comments use that term, odd.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

hbosch wrote: post #32
Osiris wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

"Smooth as butter", "smoother than butter", "butter smooth", et al is a common western phrase. It's as old or older than the King James Bible itself (Psalms 55:21 if you're curious). It's a quintessential English idiom.

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

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Post by 49531 »

jsherwani wrote: post #14
tedmiston wrote: post #7

Screenhero is hands down the best (smoothest) screen sharing app I've ever used. It's bittersweet to see them acquired by Slack as a paid only feature, but I'm happy for the team and it seems like a very ideal kind of acquisition where they solve a problem Slack has and wasn't solving well, and then Slack can scale the Screenhero userbase overnight. Edit: I just tried this feature in Slack with /call then enabling ot…

Screenhero co-founder here. We're committed to making Slack Calls better, and have a number of upcoming improvements in the works.

Yea I found the window a bit harder to control as well. I'm also really bummed because I'm not sure how I am going to help my little sister learn to code now that we can't screenhero together. Not gonna make a paid slack channel just for that.

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

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Post by philwelch »

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.

> Slack: please keep the stand-alone ScreenHero until you make the integrated one have the same performance.

Given the shitty performance of the Slack desktop client (which basically only does IRC with gifs and emoji), I'm not too confident in their ability to improve the performance of, well, anything.

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

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Post by dustingetz »

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.

I tried so hard to make screenhero work for me in 2015. It's smooth when it works, which is sometimes and for an hour at a time. Basic things like keypress replication were so buggy that I consider them unfinished - keyboard events would just be dropped on the wire and be careful not to type too fast or yur cde wll ome out ike thi!

I'm sure it's all fixed now as the Slack experience itself is robust.

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

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Post by talyian »

Osiris wrote: post #30
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…

If it makes you feel any better, silk is still the preferred standard for smoothness, and even baby bottoms are slightly more smooth than butter:

https://trends.google.la/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=s...

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=smooth+as+butt...

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

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Post by kraigh »

austenallred wrote: post #27

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.

I have the same question- I teach a class with 60 students in a lab and like to share my screen so they can follow along if they're in a poor position to view the projector screen. Currently use join.me but it's a little expensive and I'd love tighter Slack integration.

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

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Post by kodablah »

For anyone wanting to roll this themselves, it's actually quite easy with Chrome media capture these days. Just make a Chrome extension with desktopCapture permissions, follow the example codes to do things like chooseDesktopMedia and webkitGetUserMedia and let them choose the desktop (or tab). You can do what you want w/ the media stream after that (like capture to blobs which you can send around, or send over WebRTC or whatever).

I have even successfully captured a tab to video [0]

0 - https://github.com/cretz/chrome-screen-rec-poc/tree/master/a...

Edit: I should say screen capture, screen sharing is a different deal of course.

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