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Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B

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Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B

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Post by pentae »

Amazing how they are a $7b company with hundreds of employees and the issue of it still taking minutes to upload an image from the mobile app is happening years after they acknowledged it for the Asia region.

We pay hundreds a month for Slack and they are worth 7b but with all their money and hundreds of employees they just can't figure out how to get a photo to upload in a reasonable time. Just can't figure out how to do it!

Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B

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Post by lukeqsee »

pentae wrote: post #2

Amazing how they are a $7b company with hundreds of employees and the issue of it still taking minutes to upload an image from the mobile app is happening years after they acknowledged it for the Asia region. We pay hundreds a month for Slack and they are worth 7b but with all their money and hundreds of employees they just can't figure out how to get a photo to upload in a reasonable time. Just can't figure out how…

> for the Asia region.

Depending on where you are in Asia, this is a hard one. I run a company with geo-distributed systems, and even having a few Asian-base servers it is still difficult to reach the whole region. You almost need to have datacenters in every country to make it work effectively.

Not saying it's an excuse…it is $7B after all. That buys a few servers in many different regions. :)

Edit:

To continue my thought. Here are a few of the issues you're facing:

    - China has the GFW. 
    - South Korea has very subpar links to anything outside South Korea.
    - SE Asia is tons of undersea cables with limited capacity.
This issue is very likely to be somewhat outside their control, since it sounds very much like a bandwidth issue they may not have the ability to rectify.

Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B

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Post by pentae »

lukeqsee wrote: post #3
pentae wrote: post #2

Amazing how they are a $7b company with hundreds of employees and the issue of it still taking minutes to upload an image from the mobile app is happening years after they acknowledged it for the Asia region. We pay hundreds a month for Slack and they are worth 7b but with all their money and hundreds of employees they just can't figure out how to get a photo to upload in a reasonable time. Just can't figure out how…

> for the Asia region. Depending on where you are in Asia, this is a hard one. I run a company with geo-distributed systems, and even having a few Asian-base servers it is still difficult to reach the whole region. You almost need to have datacenters in every country to make it work effectively. Not saying it's an excuse…it is $7B after all. That buys a few servers in many different regions. :) Edit: To continue my t…

Its strange, we have a solid fibre connection in Thailand and have ~20mbit upstream to Singapore. It's not like we are in a shack on a mountain in Peru on a dialup modem. Slack is the only service we use thats ridiculously slow for us and we use a lot of US based services.

Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B

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Post by scruffyherder »

pentae wrote: post #2

Amazing how they are a $7b company with hundreds of employees and the issue of it still taking minutes to upload an image from the mobile app is happening years after they acknowledged it for the Asia region. We pay hundreds a month for Slack and they are worth 7b but with all their money and hundreds of employees they just can't figure out how to get a photo to upload in a reasonable time. Just can't figure out how…

Is that what the deal is?

It's so terrible I just make people Skype me.

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