What happened to HipChat? It was already the same thing as Slack for less money.
Anecdata: The SaaS service I run has integrations with both -- Slack has literally 10x the number of integrated channels.
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
#22Haven'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. https://www.stride.com
Something about this comment feels very much like an ad.
Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#23What happened to HipChat? It was already the same thing as Slack for less money.
It seems it stagnated. There wasn’t a real competitor to it until Slack turned up and developed a fantastic integration ecosystem (I don’t think there would be such a focus on conversational UI were it not for Slack, whether or not they intended that). By that time it was already too late, HipChat is old school, Slack is the new hotness. Anecdotally, anyone working in a startup with an opinion on design will know how…
To be fair, Hipchat is missing a lot of features that Slack has.
Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :)
We're still running Hipchat at work, and haven't gotten any "switch now, peasants" emails.
Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#25I 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 primary function of Atlassian software is to say "Access denied." You tell Greg he needs to give you permission to do whatever. Greg says he'll do that after he gets your self-assessment. He later writes on your self-assessment receipt that you're a whiner lacking self-motivation.
I've used Confluence for two years. It's slow and the editor is buggy. The primary function is to prevent me from making a document public. I've used JIRA for 8 years. JIRA's primary function is to send email.
I'd say your assessment is accurate.
Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#26it's safe to say this won't be killing slack in any meaningful way. wow, that's a terribly atlassian UI they plopped on there. no offense to the dev team(s), i'm sure they had no say in making it so cluttered. slack wins because they make focus on communication not mandatory UI components that have no place in a chat app.
Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#27What happened to HipChat? It was already the same thing as Slack for less money.
It seems it stagnated. There wasn’t a real competitor to it until Slack turned up and developed a fantastic integration ecosystem (I don’t think there would be such a focus on conversational UI were it not for Slack, whether or not they intended that). By that time it was already too late, HipChat is old school, Slack is the new hotness. Anecdotally, anyone working in a startup with an opinion on design will know how…
There were also performance issues with HipChat, that Slack didn't have: messages went undelivered, load times unbearable etc. (at least in Sydney where we only just got speeds faster than broadband)
Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#28What happened to HipChat? It was already the same thing as Slack for less money.
I believe they are in the process of sunsetting HipChat. It was not successful.
They gave us a deadline to move (~2000 users). So we're just getting the Slack business case ready.
If we have to move AND pay more money anyway, then why not just go to Slack?
Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe they are in the process of sunsetting HipChat. It was not successful.
They gave us a deadline to move (~2000 users). So we're just getting the Slack business case ready. If we have to move AND pay more money anyway, then why not just go to Slack?
I thought Stride was the same price as Hipchat?
Re: Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe they are in the process of sunsetting HipChat. It was not successful.
They gave us a deadline to move (~2000 users). So we're just getting the Slack business case ready. If we have to move AND pay more money anyway, then why not just go to Slack?
I believe it's cheaper, isn't it?