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Although it is technically cool, it misses practically all of what makes Slack so popular - UX.
Which makes me wonder: Just how much of UI development had software engineering had consumed and automated since 1980s, or is it still in the realm of pure human art?
Slack and discord have screen sharing and voice chat. These are not sideline features. They are pretty critical features to its market dominance.
I understand the blog post here is about suc, and it is acknowledged immediately and honestly that the headline is slightly misleading, but there's an important message here that ultimately has nothing to do with suc. Almost all modern software is bloated to hell. The idea that one would need 1.7 million LoC for a rich chat server is absurd. To paraphrase Bill Gates, I don't think I could "spend" that many lines of c…
While I agree in principle, a lot of the bloat is due to trying to have one codebase for a lot of different platforms. This is generally a good ideas as it increases the speed you can ship & reduces the size of the org. But there’s a big trade off: complexity & abstraction. The higher level your abstractions the worse it gets too. So it’s not without reason.
How do I make a call with this?
Slack and discord have screen sharing and voice chat. These are not sideline features. They are pretty critical features to its market dominance.
Critical yet feels like they are going down in quality.
Not really Slack's fault as far as I can tell.