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Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google chat, lol. Which one? Google Wave? Google Buzz? Google Talk? Google Hangouts? Google Allo? Google Duo? Google Meet? Google chat that came with Google Apps? Or G Suite? Or Google Workspace?
The one that is built into every GSuite/Workspace account. For free. Google Chat.
The mobile Google Chat still doesn't let you switch accounts, like Hangouts supports. Perplexing, given how much people in the Google-sphere context switch.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google chat, lol. Which one? Google Wave? Google Buzz? Google Talk? Google Hangouts? Google Allo? Google Duo? Google Meet? Google chat that came with Google Apps? Or G Suite? Or Google Workspace?
Damn! What kind of research did you have to do to write all those names or did you remember them all? :) They're so many now, I can only remember a few
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Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#224Back then: https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/source-microsoft-mulled-an... Microsoft must be cursing their decision right now..
Over what? Teams is currently eating Slacks lunch.
I'm so tired of hearing this argument. The amount of revenue generated by customers who use only Microsoft Teams without an Office365 subscription is exactly $0 [1]. MS gives you exactly 2 options to get teams:
1. Free
2. Included as part of Office365.
Teams is currently eatings Slacks lunch, but the lunch was paid for by a corporate IT guy who switched to Office365 so he could lay off some IT admins and save some money compared to managing an on-premise Exchange server.
[1](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-team...)
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed, the reactions I'm seeing here feel more more emotional than rational. (Which is totally legitimate. Emotions are a dominant factor in product "love".) If the product were to get worse, there are any number of effectively-equivalent (if not as lovable) substitutes.
It's 'legit' to feel a certain way, the opposite to make decisions about business and productivity that way. The real trick is, to figure out all those things we do that we think are based on utility, but are not. The Saab ad comparing their car to the Jets the make appeals to our 'every little boy wants to be a pilot' fantasy. But the Ford ads that tell us how 'strong' our vehicle is going to be ... even though many…
> It's 'legit' to feel a certain way, the opposite to make decisions about business and productivity that way.
That seems very reasonable from a purely rational POV, and I know we all like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. (It reminds me of this: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/rational-2)
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
Teams suck. Google Chat? What’s that? I’ll stick with Slack.
Unpopular HN opinion: Teams doesn't suck. It's not as pretty/lovable as Slack, but it has an additional level of organization (each team gets their own set of channels), you can add tabs of related apps/sites to each channel, etc. As far as I could tell having used both simultaneously for a few years, Teams is a complete superset of Slack.
Switching channels/teams in Teams is far less efficient than moving through channels in Slack, which means I'm less likely to engage well in Teams.
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#228Whatever happened to matrix.org/vector/riot.im/element.io? (side note: most confusing branding ever :-/). Element seemed to be picking up some momentum a few months back. There was recent news that they acquired gitter too [1]. These days I only hear about slack exodus and discord this and discord that, though. If I get it right, from all the group messengers that appeared around 6 years ago, the only one with an ope…
I think you're missing out RocketChat
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#229Whatever happened to matrix.org/vector/riot.im/element.io? (side note: most confusing branding ever :-/). Element seemed to be picking up some momentum a few months back. There was recent news that they acquired gitter too [1]. These days I only hear about slack exodus and discord this and discord that, though. If I get it right, from all the group messengers that appeared around 6 years ago, the only one with an ope…
I don't think anything's happened to Matrix, it continues to develop and grow at what, at least as it feels to me, a slow and steady pace. I tried it towards the beginning, after a few years, and am currently on it again, running my own homeserver, and it's been getting better and better each time. It's definitely still got a few rough edges, but it's both much more reliable and much more fully featured than in the past. E2EE is finally very easy on the flagship clients, which is a pretty great achivement on an open federated system.
Anyway, I think it's still here and growing, but it pops into the HN consciousness every now and again. That doesn't mean it's popularity is similarly varied :)
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#230This is a major win for Discord.
I'd argue that discord brand simply doesn't lend itself well to business. maybe they'll spin off a business oriented division with a different name,
Maybe, though this reminds me of the story where Borland's management decided to move away from the "hacker" style ethos and mainstream audience so that they chase after the "enterprise" businesses and ended up alienating their own engineers, their existing customers and screwing up themselves over the years to the point where they went from being one of the biggest software houses in the computer industry to a little ball that is painted and thrown around owners that operate akin to digital graveyards.