I have always wondered if any company uses IRC?
Yelp did until a few years ago
Any reason why they moved away from it?
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
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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
Haha, it reminds me a bit of Microsoft Account, MSA, Windows Live ID, Microsoft Passport, .NET Passport, and Microsoft Passport Network.
There was also MSN, and then on the side there was your Xbox Live account and your Games for Windows Live account. I think mine have all been merged at this point, but people at my job still click on the "work" account when they really want their personal (we don't use 365) and are confused when their account is empty.
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#623They 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.
Or try designing a really great office collaboration suite and end up accidentally making a killer game.
or suprise a dev because they're apparently not fully focused on politics anymore?
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I have that enabled and I still get the message that my call will end when I try to switch teams while in a call. Last tried this a couple of days ago.
I am not sure what you mean by "switch teams". Are you attempting to Switch Tenants?
Guess I'm using the wrong words. To the left of my user name, next to the minimize/maximize buttons, I can switch (in my mind)... something. I guess tenant is the word, but in my mind that is the team.
I see now that what I've always thought of as "channels" is called Teams, no idea how I've overlooked that for over two years but there you go.
My point is in Discord I can be on a dozen different servers with different administrators and seamlessly go between them. Not so in Teams. I'm stuck to one tenant (team) at a time. Which sucks if you need to switch between them.
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Matrix is doing pretty well (although I might be biased, being project lead). For instance, the entirety of the German military announced moving over to Matrix using a fork of Element a few days ago: https://sifted.eu/articles/european-armies-matrix/ , and there are several other (very) major governments beyond France & Germany who are switching to Matrix in order to get end-to-end-encrypted interoperable comms that…
This is really cool. And thanks for posting. > "In terms of naming, it's really not hard: Matrix is the protocol..." First time I read that it was clarifying. Second time I read it it reminded me - naming is important. Always think about customers and don't dismiss things that confuse customers / end users. I 100% want to see y'all succeed. But this customer friction area and similar ones are not to be overlooked. If…
> A CLI client that is reliable and cutting edge would be awesome (looks like some contenders - I'd love to see one in Clojure or Rust but that's just me..)
Weechat is really impressively good on Matrix, and the plugin is in the final stages of being rewritten in Rust. It has full E2EE support, and the developer is funded to work on it full time.
> I.e., implement the difficult parts of Slack really, really well
Yup. The balance between features and core stability is Hard, but hopefully we're getting the balance right (at last).
Hydrogen (hydrogen.element.io) is an example of a ludicrously lightweight, stable, but not-yet-featureful Matrix client fwiw, as an example of what the balance looks like for "implementing the difficult bits really really well".
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I am not sure what you mean by "switch teams". Are you attempting to Switch Tenants?
Guess I'm using the wrong words. To the left of my user name, next to the minimize/maximize buttons, I can switch (in my mind)... something. I guess tenant is the word, but in my mind that is the team. I see now that what I've always thought of as "channels" is called Teams, no idea how I've overlooked that for over two years but there you go. My point is in Discord I can be on a dozen different servers with differen…
I see, I am not sure how common that is. Most places you only need 1 Tenant unless your are contracting with Multiple companies but even then you would be set up as a Guest on their tenant not have your own independent user name for each tenant you need access to.
You are correct that Teams today does not support Multi-Tenancy but that is really not an issue for 99.5% of organizations who would only ever have 1 tenant anyway
Teams is structure as
Tenant -> Teams -> Channels
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Yes the redundant orgs will probably be mainly laid off eventually. You don’t need 2 HR’s, G/A, etc. Sales will probably be reduced quite a bit and the engineering team will stick around.
Slack's culture is very different from Salesforce's so I think they will at least keep around HR.
That's a big indication Salesforce will get rid of Slack HR.
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Remember that MS Teams forced themselves into the market by pushing it onto their existing customers, not because it's a worthy competitor. Now Slack can play that same game too.
Shouldn't that have given Salesforce some leverage in the deal? Slack needed them more than Salesforce needed Slack
Slack was doing just fine before the deal. They were thriving and their most recent earnings report would've been stellar: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201201006167/en/Sla...
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Slack's culture is very different from Salesforce's so I think they will at least keep around HR.
That's a big indication Salesforce will get rid of Slack HR.
Slack will continue to be Slack[1] according to the CEO which doesn't signal a culture change.