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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

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Post by bhtru »

devhead wrote: post #26

it'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.

I've not ever used Stride however I've now just tried it as a curiosity to see this UI that you find fault with. It feels figuratively just like Slack. I'm actually surprised just how similar it is in so many respects. So I'd love to hear your elaboration on the poorness of the Stride UI.

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

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Post by rekoros »

encoderer wrote: post #21
tootie wrote: post #2

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.

https://sameroom.io/status

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

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Post by hrktb »

tootie wrote: post #94
pavel_lishin wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Like what? 99% of usage is just chat rooms. I could hook in build notifications and post gifs. HipChat had voice and video years before Slack.

Hipchat is not very good at notifications and chat though.

3 years in, and still randomly missing messages for a while until it’s somewhat synched.

Whole ongoing conversations don’t appear on other devices if I don’t manually open them.

Getting notified on my phone while I’m on my laptop.

Lack of integrations is the most sailant thing to point st, but I think at its core Hipchap is also a very meh service.

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

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Post by antoniuschan99 »

dasil003 wrote: post #97

Just don't fuck up Trello guys, for the love of god.

Trello seems to have lost it's use after it got made into a separate company. It seems to have gotten worse after it got bought out by Atlassian. No real intriguing features.

Also, Atlassian used to be loved by developers, after it ipoed it just seems not loved

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

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Post by stevejohnson »

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…

We switched to Slack the day Hipchat went down for several hours.

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

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Post by notatoad »

anfilt wrote: post #60

I don't understand the point of all these stupid chat apps... Discord, Slack ect... If you need real time there is IRC. Otherwise, just setup a mailing list.

sometimes, you need to use a chat app to talk to other people. in those cases, an app that the person at the other end of the conversation can have a fighting chance at figuring out how to use it can be a good thing.

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

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Post by sjellis »

patrickaljord wrote: post #5
hartator wrote: post #4

Earlier 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.

Barry Warsaw's law of names: "All names are stupid until you become rich and famous with it."

HipChat is a terrible name for a work-related collaboration tool, but "Slack" isn't great either....

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

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Post by x0x0 »

azinman2 wrote: post #92
tootie wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, no kidding. My last company was up in arms to replace HipChat with Slack even though they were 99% identical. There hasn't been a significant innovation in chat technology in like 30 years yet the business sector is more frothy than ever.

Having extensively used both, Slack really is much better. Hipchat has a ton of reliability/usability issues and it’s clear _consumer-like_ product design is not Atlassian’s forte.

Also, HipChat circa 2016 was forced on my acquired company that had previously used slack. What a piece of shit that app is. HipChat just nuked the battery life on my stock nexus phone.

I had never before gotten in an argument about a chat app, but HipChat made me passionate about using anything else.

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