Bye bye BetterSlack

Post by rovr138 » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 9:33 AM UTC

calgoo wrote: post #36

splatzone wrote: post #29

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Could they really sue you for creating a chrome extension that modifies their webpage? That would be a very dark day for the internet. I can't imagine there's any legal basis for that, but it would be very interesting to hear a lawyer's opinion. Well done on what you have achieved, keep fighting the good fight!

I dont think they can, or all the adblockers would have been removed already.

Post by sundvor » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 9:55 AM UTC

jgalentine007 wrote: post #215

subway wrote: post #62

Here's a spiffy new fork: https://github.com/betterlimp/betterlimp

Can't stop laughing right now.

Post by g3rv4 » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 10:05 AM UTC

Arathorn wrote: post #323

g3rv4 wrote: post #276

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woooooowwwwwww so... I could use riot to connect to my company’s slack? that’s a dream come true!!! I’ll def check it out

Speaking as someone working on matrix and riot, we would love you to come and do BetterSlack style things to Riot - we are getting tantalisingly close to being “as good as Slack” (except entirely FOSS, decentralised, standards based and with E2E encryption) - and positively encourage folks to customise the apps as long as they don’t introduce bugs or harm the security model. Plus we can just accept changes straight i…

Post by canadaduane » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 10:10 AM UTC

mst wrote: post #90

canadaduane wrote: post #17

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I worked at a medium-sized company during the transition from IRC to Slack. The problem the company had was a split in comms networks. There was a lack of will on the part of engineers to move to GChat, and non-engineers were unwilling to respond/engage on IRC. Marketing, Sales, and Admin were using GChat, while engineering used IRC. Getting everyone on the same comms platform was a major improvement. I'm not saying…

I confess that, overall, that's been my experience with a few customers and that getting everyone on the same platform was ace. But as somebody who's got gchat gatewayed to IRC, replacing two things I can use from irssi with one thing I can't has always annoyed me.

Post by realusername » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 10:42 AM UTC

ckastner wrote: post #335

realusername wrote: post #277

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> You don't have to literally sign something to be bound by an agreement. That's only in the US as far as I know, everywhere else you can't be bound by an agreement without signing anything.

This is absolutely false. Regardless of where you are, the majority of the agreements you enter into are not only not signed, they are not even explicit (but rather implied). Case in point: practically everytime you buy something and pay with cash, you have entered into a purchase agreement without having signed anything.