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Re: Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded performance

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Post by breatheoften »

gomox wrote: post #33
jacquesc wrote: post #13

This backend outage reveals how horrible the Slack UI is implemented. You post a message.... you think it got sent. Then 1min later, it tells you it was not.

You can tell it was built for Silicon Valley. The marginally lighter gray tone on unsent messages is only noticeable by design-aware people on fancy IPS monitors. Messages are reordered semi-randomly.

I frequently send - edit send - edit the same message in an effort to reduce the number of typos.

Recently i've realized that this actually introduces more typos -- where a large number of phrases are duplicated or corrected typos reapplied.

There's something wrong with slacks operational transform or CRDT implementation or whatever they use to get edited messages to converge

Re: Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded performance

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Post by koenigdavidmj »

swiley wrote: post #50

Why do companies spring for slack and webex when xmpp exists and works better?

It is a legitimate improvement to see everything that happened when you were offline. At that point you're not supporting XMPP; you're supporting "XMPP with some pixie dust to save that and let it be viewed, which is in a totally different place than your live chats".

Slack is a not-great implementation of a good idea, including a use case that IRC and XMPP don't meet. Tulip is a better implementation of that good idea, plus yet another good idea.

Re: Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded performance

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Post by dvtrn »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #62
dvtrn wrote: post #5

I’ve recently taken an interest in data analytics and have been using daily volumes of interruptions I receive via slack (and other sources) as a data set to learn myself on and try to understand how I can be more productive individually. Today’s disruption should provide an interesting data point all of its own.

Do you work for yourself or someone else? If the latter, why do you spend any effort maximizing your efficiency? This is a pattern that I see often on HN. People take an employer's problem (they are wasting the time they've purchased with distractions) and making it their personal problem.

Because I just want to. This is really just nothing but me giving myself a project to work on because I wanted to learn something.

Re: Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded performance

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Post by benbristow »

StavrosK wrote: post #23
coldcode wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have both Slack and Teams. Almost everyone I know who has an option picks Slack.

I've never used Teams, but if everyone prefers Slack over it, it must be horrible.

Teams is too corporate IMHO. The video chat is really good from experience though.

Everywhere I've worked Slack's basically a free for all, can add custom emojis and create private channels etc.

Teams was always more locked down. One place even disabled the GIF feature!

I know you can lock down Slack too but nowhere I've been has bothered to do so.

Re: Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded performance

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Post by blueblisters »

rexreed wrote: post #60

Is Discord a viable alternative to Slack? If not, why not?

If Discord wades into the business communication space, I would move without a second thought. The voice/call reliability seems better, anecdotally. I think the voice lounge concept could translate well into the enterprise space as well, if done right.

Re: Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded performance

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Post by strifey »

rexreed wrote: post #89
juvoni wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes it is, but a key feature discord lacks is threads. Still it is a huge upgrade from Slack in terms of performance and ease of use.

I am a heavy Slack user but I don't use threads. Threads seem like a confusing mess. Am I missing something not using Slack threads?

If everyone is bought-in on using them, they can be a really nice way to keep single topics in one place rather than having interleaved conversations in a single channel. If people don't use it 100% of the time, though, it's honestly worse because now you're not always sure where to read/continue a conversation.
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