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Federation is also super useful if you're a multinational, since each geographic location could still operate autonomously in the face of an inability to route to the broader Internet. And with a protocol like Matrix, you're able to recover gracefully when federation is restored.
This is nice to have, but how often does that really happen?
I'm not a slack power user, but I feel that it's a bit like IRC but with a fancy (and slow) GUI wrapped around it. Certainly I am wrong, but how wrong?
It’s the same distance as between Dropbox and a Git + Rsync setup. The later will work the same for half a percent of the users, but the 99.5% left would be crying tears of blood. I remember Mozilla employees’ blogs about the contraptions they had at individual levels to make IRC fully work for them, and you just can’t ask that to the HR recruiting intern.
They started out trying to make an MMO, ended up making Flickr instead. Then they tried making another MMO, but ended up making Slack instead. I really hope they get cracking on another MMO soon.
What is an MMO? Massive Multiplayer Online?
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I don't think this is true. You can't really join/leave channels on Discord (yes I'm aware you can use roles to give permissions but it's not the same).
I've never used Slack but in Microsoft Teams there are Teams and Channels and they pretty much map 1:1 to Discord's Servers and Text Channels. You cannot leave individual channels of a Team though you can mute them and you have even less permissions than Discord. So maybe it isn't a 1:1 replacement for Slack but it certainly could compete in the field.
I'm somewhat surprised that Amazon didn't end up acquiring Slack, considering that the major thing they are missing compared to Microsoft is productivity tools. If they had purchased Dropbox and Slack they could've gotten a foothold rather quickly and slowed down one of Microsoft's major selling points (you already use Office, why not Azure?). Discord could be another interesting company in the chat space, as I'm sur…
I truly hope not. I like discord for its informal, gaming, and specifically not enterprise or "professional" approach/atmosphere. I use it to chat with friends and talk in some communities (eg. programming ones).
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My large disappointment with Google's Cloud Platform offering was lack of commitment to parity features. I am sorry but the concept of "Beta release level" is a complete misfire/mismatch for what an enterprise needs. For example, you cannot, on one hand, advertise that you have a competitive feature (Google Functions competing with AWS Lambda), but then, on the other hand, turn around and label it beta and basically…
That enterprise need reliability in Office land is a myth and MS is pumping out half baked systems just like Google. Flow, Teams, Lists, Planner, Sway, Stream, Forms, Kaizala... Sorry, but these aren't battle tested enterprise apps at all. Could as well pull random apps from the Google store. Whenever something new releases the first reaction already is "not again"...
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Teams is the new Skype > everyone has Teams for free Prevalent sentiment at my workplace: Teams integrates well for outlook meetings, but it‘s a CPU hog, has crappy chat UI. It paralyzes work to the extent, that I only prefer to use Slack. Or zoom for bigger video calls.
Exactly. I work at a large financial company and we have: Teams, Slack, Skype and Zoom. - Zoom for large team meeting - Slack for collaboration between our teams - Skype for upper management meetings who are still only know Skype - Teams is free with office subscription and our company has been pushing everyone to use it instead of using slack but everyone hates Teams. Terrible UI and slow
I've been using slack/mattermost/discord And functionality wise only discord can be onpar with teams.
For me the fascinating headline here is the 86% gross margins. FY2020 gross revenue at Slack was $630.4m, GAAP gross profit $533.2m [1]. SaaS apps are comically, stupidly profitable at scale. That's educational. [1] https://slack.com/blog/news/slack-announces-fourth-quarter-a...
The subscription model is a true modernized return to the good old ways of creating a product that sells because it’s good quality. How? If a user is not satisfied, they will stop paying. Slack has all the incentives to improve their product, especially in the face of competition.
They started out trying to make an MMO, ended up making Flickr instead. Then they tried making another MMO, but ended up making Slack instead. I really hope they get cracking on another MMO soon.
Making an MMO is an incredibly hard but rewarding endeavor. There are so many subsystems that you can design and program that you will never end the game; but you will end much wiser.