What happened to HipChat? It was already the same thing as Slack for less money.
Stride is just re-branded HipChat.
Stride is a complete rewrite.
Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
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Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#12Haven't used Stride yet but as someone who hates always-on chat I could see myself really appreciating its deep work oriented features: mute notifications, allow others in the channel to mark things as "task", "decision", "outcome" so you can go back and find important things you missed while deep working.
Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#13I don't know what it is about Atlassian's branding but it always feels uncomfortably corporate to use any of their software. I'm worried that if I start using Atlassian software I'm going to have to buy inexpensive business-casual clothes, commute an hour and 15 minutes both ways, make small talk with Janet from accounting by the coffee machine while my mocha latte brews, and get Greg my middle-manager my self-assessment by EOD.
Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#14I don't know what it is about Atlassian's branding but it always feels uncomfortably corporate to use any of their software. I'm worried that if I start using Atlassian software I'm going to have to buy inexpensive business-casual clothes, commute an hour and 15 minutes both ways, make small talk with Janet from accounting by the coffee machine while my mocha latte brews, and get Greg my middle-manager my self-assess…
Sounds like they nailed it.
Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#15I don't know what it is about Atlassian's branding but it always feels uncomfortably corporate to use any of their software. I'm worried that if I start using Atlassian software I'm going to have to buy inexpensive business-casual clothes, commute an hour and 15 minutes both ways, make small talk with Janet from accounting by the coffee machine while my mocha latte brews, and get Greg my middle-manager my self-assess…
The Atlassian blues.
Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#16If I am going to consider using something other than Slack, probably the only thing I would consider is a self-hosted open source solution to keep communication private (just having an on-prem closed solution would not be enough, I want to OWN the data, otherwise, I might as well go with the market leader).
Otherwise, why use Stride instead of Slack? Most people I know have already used Slack and require no training. They probably even have the mobile app installed already.
Stride just seems to be a me-too offering with no compelling reason to exist
This is different in my mind than the market for VCS interfaces...in the end I still own my git repo
Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#17Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stride is just re-branded HipChat.
I know it sounds silly but I believe the main reason for HipChat failing is mostly because the name was so uncool.
More likely it's just that HipChat isn't a great product experience.
As an example, the only way to edit a message is to use a sed-style "s/foo/bar", which is absurd. Because of this, you can't edit messages other than the most recent one, and if you want to edit one instance of "foo" but not another instance of "foo" you're out of luck. That's a terrible piece of UX even if you're in the only subset of users (software devs familiar with sed-style search and replace) where it makes any sense whatsoever
Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stride is just re-branded HipChat.
Stride is a complete rewrite.
Any sources on that? I'm pretty sure it's a heavy re-architecting at the very least, but if it's the same team and lead, have they gone entirely from scratch or repurposed some of Hipchat's code? (just questioning)
Not curious enough to do the kind of blackbox exploration folks at https://webrtchacks.com or other sites do :)