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Re: Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS

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post #125

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Unlikely to be successful? This app has near zero chance of surviving a legal challenge from Slack.

Author of Ripcord. You don’t know what you’re talking about and shouldn’t broadcast your assumptions as fact.

Oh, you have a law license too?

Re: Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS

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post #46

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That's interesting. I find managing Teams' multiple windows cumbersome and confusing, but find Slack very natural and efficient. Do you end up sending messages in the wrong chat often? Or missing messages or both? What do the main frustrations of a single window setup look like?

On a Mac, Teams doesn't obey many of the user interface guidelines, so multi-window use is unintuitive and difficult. Of course nothing in Mac Teams is nearly as bad as their incoming call notification - calls pop up under all your existing calendar/email/... notifications, which you have to furiously click away in order to answer the call.

That sounds ridiculously frustrating. Does Cmd + ` pull up the call? I'm guessing no since Teams go out of its way to make notifications un-native and clunky, but maybe worth a shot.

Re: Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS

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post #229

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Should clarify: the comment above me by @amedvednikov is referring to this comment chain's original poster -- @Mandatum -- not the parent or link submitter, and the post mentioned is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30838788

Big yikes. Thanks for clearing this up. I totally misinterpreted the accusation.

My apologies, I should've made it clear and added a link.

Re: Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS

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post #228

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Click on the username => submissions

Ah, ok, I would call that a “submission” but it’s an “Ask HN” so I see where you came up with “post”. Note that the submission page is sorted chronologically, not by karma. So the concept of “top” is really more like “first”. It seems you meant to point out that @Mandatum admitted to lying but the way you phrased it really made it difficult to verify the claim and came across to me like you were accusing @jessefied12…

My apologies, I should've made it clear and added a link.

And indeed, the submissions are sorted chronologically. So I should've used "latest", not "top".

Re: Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS

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Ripcord survived C&D letters because it didn't charge. I feel bad for OP for putting all this work in, because it's really cool - but you're going to get sued.

I was trying to remember the name of ripcord while reading this. Thanks. I used it for a while for both slack and discord and it wasn’t bad. However they did sell licenses. I just don’t think they required them. I just double checked and I bought a $20 license for it. Good software and definitely worth it as far as I was concerned.

Re: Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS

#236
post #183

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Want to double-down on this. I read "native" and immediately assumed the main selling point was perf - which enticed me to open the link.

Paying for native macOS apps is like buying vinyl records. It’s an aesthetic choice, nothing more.

Sadly, this take misses so much about Mac native software, things that many people just do not know are possible.

- accessibility built in which benefits everyone

- native application scripting

- consistent keyboard shortcuts, including focus ring movement

- ability to App Nap / fast system shutdown

- consistent retina/DPI behavior across display drags

I've been developing Mac native software for 20 years now and I'm still wowed by some of the things that come with the toolkit for free.

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