Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers

Post by wwalser » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 11:11 PM UTC

rlopezcc wrote: post #39

tootie wrote: post #2

What happened to HipChat? It was already the same thing as Slack for less money.

I was really disappointed when noticed they didn't have a way to report bugs. They had some kind of "Suggestions box", so I used that to report mine: Images wouldn't upload correctly when the chat room name started wih a slash (/dev/null in my case). They deleted the ticket and a few days later it was magically fixed. You will find pretty annoyed people if you search for "report hipchat bug".

Post by danielvf » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 11:22 PM UTC

goldsmithsteve wrote: post #47

GFischer wrote: post #19

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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 :)

I believe I am a pretty good source. :) Stride is a brand new product (not a rebrand of Hipchat), we did not repurpose Hipchat's code. It's built from ground up on Atlassian platform - new protocol, clients, platform, etc. One exception is the video bridge technology which remains powered by the Jitsi.org open source product (which we acquired in 2015). I do look after both products (Hipchat Cloud and Stride) for Atl…

Post by hkchad » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 11:52 PM UTC

wwalser wrote: post #52

hkchad wrote: post #49

Long time hipchat user here (both DC and Cloud), the rollout of Stride rubbed me all kinds of wrong ways. They 'replaced' HipChat w/ Strie but didn't keep many of the same features/integrations and then FORCED you to switch by a deadline. I get upgrades and progress, but how about rolling upgrade, swap out the client, move everyone over automatically and not pain your users? For my team, we said screw it and 'migrate…

Inaccurate. Data center has not been sunset. https://www.stride.com/help-center/frequently-asked-question... I also don't think anyone was forced to switch but I could be wrong. An email requesting or encouraging some action is different from being forced to do something.

Post by tootie » Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 12:22 AM UTC

ljm wrote: post #10

tootie wrote: post #2

What 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…

Post by pavel_lishin » Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 12:34 AM UTC

ljm wrote: post #42

pavel_lishin wrote: post #23

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To be fair, Hipchat is missing a lot of features that Slack has.

That’s exactly the point, right? Slack turned up and offered more and HipChat didn’t respond in a meaningful way except to rewrite all their clients in JS. At that point they had a buggy client and fewer features, while Slack had an inefficient client with lots of features.