What is the good alternative to Slack now? Cheaper / OS / self-hosted etc?
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
#12Has anyone considered using Discord instead of Slack? They seem very similar.
Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#13Amazing 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…
it is $7B after all.
There's no actual $7B involved here. At least, not in the 'buy the Angkor Wat and turn it into a data center' sense.
Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#14What is the good alternative to Slack now? Cheaper / OS / self-hosted etc?
There's Matrix and Riot. it's still a bit rough on the edges but overall it's very cool projects.
Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#15What is the good alternative to Slack now? Cheaper / OS / self-hosted etc?
Mattermost.
Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#16That's a crazy evaluation, is that company really worth 7.1Instagrams?
It really is a nice product, but it feels like a 'First-To-Market' success story. Especially since it's built on top of electron, which I'm still trying to accept as a real platform for application development, and not the '3d printer' of the software world.
I hope they don't use this money to feature-swamp the app, and instead focus inward on performance and migrating to a more stable platform.
Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#17Still waiting for a native MacOS app that doesn't slow my machine down to a crawl and runs the fans whenever I made a video call.
$7.1B folks. $7.1 billion.
Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#18Has anyone considered using Discord instead of Slack? They seem very similar.
Discord is MUCH better than Slack. But since it's primarily aimed at the gaming community it doesn't get the same audience.
Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
it is $7B after all. There's no actual $7B involved here. At least, not in the 'buy the Angkor Wat and turn it into a data center' sense.
> There's no actual $7B involved here.
Valid point.
Thankfully buying a few regional servers is manageable with $437m. :)
Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#20Has anyone considered using Discord instead of Slack? They seem very similar.
Discord has a huge image problem. I won't touch it with a 10ft stick or even mention it in a professional environment. Besides that it's very annoying that it's a complicated mess that has no real focus.