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Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by square_usual »

Macha wrote: post #603
square_usual wrote: post #596

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You can mute channels and hide them, or mute sections, or mute chanells and collapse the sections they are in. There are lots of ways to get channels you don't want out of your face.

This isn't scalable. My employer has many many thousands of channels on our slack instance. Opt in is so much better than opt out at that level

You can opt-in with role-based permissions. Discord has been used by massive servers with hundreds of thousands of users, it's a bit involved to set up but it's not impossible. You can even automate a lot of it with bots.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #585
easton wrote: post #14

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…

> as I'm sure they are considering an enterprise play (if they aren't they are insane, considering they have one of the more user friendly chat services and with SSO and a SLA they could probably charge $10 per user). 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. programm…

I mean, you'd probably white label it, call it harmony as someone suggested up thread.

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Post by Macha »

square_usual wrote: post #611
Macha wrote: post #603

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This isn't scalable. My employer has many many thousands of channels on our slack instance. Opt in is so much better than opt out at that level

You can opt-in with role-based permissions. Discord has been used by massive servers with hundreds of thousands of users, it's a bit involved to set up but it's not impossible. You can even automate a lot of it with bots.

You understand that an admin needing to set up a channel, a bot and a role is a bit more involved than any user just hitting create channel and inviting the relevant users/users searching and joining the public channel, right?

EDIT: Another example of discord's permission system being a poor match for the business use case is pinning messages to the channel is the same permission as deleting other user's messages. Additionally, the channel per server limit is 500.

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Post by seqastian »

gorokan wrote: post #535
LukeShu wrote: post #413

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They don't work at all in Firefox, so... for any Firefox users, yes.

It may be Firefox. The video conferencing platform we use (Dekko Lynx) requires Chrome or Edge, because Firefox does not support the tech that Dekko needs for its end-to-end encryption calls (as we have been explained).

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Browser-support

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Post by jusssi »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #572
idlewords wrote: post #403

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Or try designing a really great office collaboration suite and end up accidentally making a killer game.

You mean eve online?

I believe that was/is a marketing campaign for MS Excel.

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Post by NateEag »

goatinaboat wrote: post #609
pimterry wrote: post #600

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Is that true? For a social app where every user pays, sure, but Slack is generally paid for by a central business/group/organization. If the users in the organization are sufficiently unhappy with Slack, a functional organization should be unhappy with Slack, and if the organization is unhappy it can migrate everybody elsewhere overnight, with minimal social impact.

If the users in the organization are sufficiently unhappy with Slack, a functional organization should be unhappy with Slack Nice theory but overwhelmingly disproved by the existence of SAP.

It's also possible that almost all organizations using SAP are dysfunctional.

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Post by Waterluvian »

bartread wrote: post #573
Waterluvian wrote: post #405

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My wife and I once spent TWO hours stuffing photocopiers into an elevator in Deus Ex. So, getting close with that one.

One of the oddest comments I've yet seen on HN. Was this part of a mission or just for grins?

We went into the police station for a mission but my inner child called out to me. She says it's the day she realised she wanted to marry me.

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Post by alecco »

odiroot wrote: post #593
mullingitover wrote: post #394

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.

Maybe we can get a good cross-platform email client next?

Slack client is horrible like most Electron apps. There is no free lunch.

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Post by lotsofpulp »

CharlesW wrote: post #277
mike_d wrote: post #187

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The take away is that your issue was resolved. While it might not have been a satisfactory experience, you received resolution. If your issue was with your Gmail account or Facebook, you'd still be streaming into the void.

The question was whether Amazon has "relatively good customer support for retail", which it doesn't in my experience. If we move the goalpost to "have I been able to resolve problems", then yes — after 30 minutes of research into how to hack Amazon customer support in order to talk with a human, followed by multiple phone and chat interactions with generous on-hold time, I can share that Amazon support for retail tec…

Amazon removed the ability to filter items only shipped and sold by Amazon.com. That is an anti customer move that squarely puts Amazon in the bad customer service category.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by lotsofpulp »

pbourke wrote: post #549
gwright wrote: post #197

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I haven't read the details but an earlier message said "70x revenue". It is hard to think of a reason not to sell at that multiple.

Slack is valued higher than Kroger, which runs 2,700+ grocery stores in the United Stages. Apple and Sweden have about the same valuation right now. Apple is worth 30% more than Saudi Arabia.

Useful numbers aren’t just scalar quantities you can compare. Market capitalization and GDP are not “worth” or useful for ranking “worth”.
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