Who ever mentions Zoom under such a headline and then cannot think of anything better must have a pretty limIted experience with software and must have been living under a rock lately. Don't remember Zoombombing? What about the fact, that Zoom planned to limit encryption to only business customers?
Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
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#12Who ever mentions Zoom under such a headline and then cannot think of anything better must have a pretty limIted experience with software and must have been living under a rock lately. Don't remember Zoombombing? What about the fact, that Zoom planned to limit encryption to only business customers?
Also we discover that Facebook for business is good apparently (it isn't) and also this is consumer software taking over the business world i.e completely the opposite phenomenon. Also the writer believes choices like this to be rational, instead of shitty managers with nothing to do trying things to justify their paycheck and consumers acting like heard animals installing anything that's free and is something everyone else is getting. I didn't choose zoom for the UI, I had to install it cos I have to cos everyone is using it because its free and not completly dreadful.
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#13Nice article. I'd love to see examples of people using slack for personal life. Don't know anyone who does this.
I'm on a couple of social Slacks. The most active is me + three others, all of whom live pretty close to each other, and we've been using it to stay in touch while not seeing each other in person and also while not blowing up phones with notifications (i.e., other IM mechanisms will ping us in real time).
I think we mostly ended up on Slack because we already use it in other contexts - if we didn't, we might have gone for some other IM system.
Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
#14Who ever mentions Zoom under such a headline and then cannot think of anything better must have a pretty limIted experience with software and must have been living under a rock lately. Don't remember Zoombombing? What about the fact, that Zoom planned to limit encryption to only business customers?
Also we discover that Facebook for business is good apparently (it isn't) and also this is consumer software taking over the business world i.e completely the opposite phenomenon. Also the writer believes choices like this to be rational, instead of shitty managers with nothing to do trying things to justify their paycheck and consumers acting like heard animals installing anything that's free and is something everyo…
You are describing the well known "network effect".
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#15Nice article. I'd love to see examples of people using slack for personal life. Don't know anyone who does this.
A bit of an edge case, but I recently managed to move all my important conversations with friends to Discord - except for one friend who didn't use it. Since he also works in tech, we just made a Slack workspace for the two of us. I actually find it quite nice to have different channels for each topic that we're mutually interested in. Slack and Discord are my two favorite chat platforms right now so I'm very happy w…
I absolutely refuse to use Discord ever again after they started requiring phone verification. I'm tired of every company under the sun wanting all kinds of information from me that have nothing to do with what I need their service for. It's frustrating that it's become so popular.
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#16I just installed Oracle DB to help my mum with managing her recipes. It's really improved her TTT (Time to table).
I use Oracle DB for managing my daily to-do list. I'll never miss a task again!
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#17Nice article. I'd love to see examples of people using slack for personal life. Don't know anyone who does this.
Slack was a godsend for medium to large sized hobby communities and student organizations. At UC Berkeley, the groups I was part of switched from IRC (for the nerds) and consumer group text products to Slack. There was (and still might be?) a large hobby community using it, although I think Discord largely owns the space now in the consumer market.
I use Discord for business communication.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bit of an edge case, but I recently managed to move all my important conversations with friends to Discord - except for one friend who didn't use it. Since he also works in tech, we just made a Slack workspace for the two of us. I actually find it quite nice to have different channels for each topic that we're mutually interested in. Slack and Discord are my two favorite chat platforms right now so I'm very happy w…
I absolutely refuse to use Discord ever again after they started requiring phone verification. I'm tired of every company under the sun wanting all kinds of information from me that have nothing to do with what I need their service for. It's frustrating that it's become so popular.
Phone verification is the cheap and easy way to stop spam/malicious actors, plus you get a unique identified to track people with. I imagine it's here to stay in the short term.
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#19Yeah, only listing one example, I.e. Zoom, especially when that example has numerous faults such as poor privacy, kind of nullifies whatever point the article was trying to make.
Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
#20Nice article. I'd love to see examples of people using slack for personal life. Don't know anyone who does this.
Slack is not a good example for this headline. Loads of chat applications are much better than Slack. Slack sucks. Slack is chosen by business people, who heard about it from their business friends and ignore input from their tech team. Examples: Discord - but terrible data policy as well, but at least works fluently without long load times and they managed to use webrtc in 2020, which Slack still sucjs at and gives…
Keybase (now zoom)? Matrix(getting better all the time)?