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Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by layer8 »

the8472 wrote: post #75
athorax wrote: post #4

Who is asking for this? As Atlassian consolidates Loom into its platform, engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira, leaders will use videos to connect with employees at scale, sales teams will send tailored video updates to clients, and HR teams will onboard new employees with personalized welcome videos

> engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira I already use windows game mode for screen captures. Why would I need a separate application for that?

Where I’ve worked Game Mode was disabled by GPO in enterprise environments.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

#102

Post by jjoonathan »

heisgone wrote: post #87

This make perfect sense. Atlassian is cornering the market of "features nobody ask for but make for good sales pitch to clueless managers".

You have to fill in the mandatory metadata correctly (both on the meeting and in the linked Epic, you did remember to link an Epic right?) or the meeting won't start. Just imagine how pretty the Atlassian admin's productivity dashboards will look now!

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

#103

Post by tehbeard »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #50
codegeek wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of the infamous dropbox comment :)

Even after more than a decade, I still don't see what the "infamous dropbox comment" fundamentally gets wrong. 1. Why would I want to host my sensitive data on someone else's servers instead of my own servers and storage hardware? 2. Why shouldn't someone have a physical media backup for time-urgent, sensitive files? Last I was in school, if I had a final presentation, I would absolutely store it both on a hypothetic…

Your arguments are not related at all to the original infamous comment.

Your points are valid ones about data privacy, and redundancy of important data. And how Joe public doesn't seem to notice those.

The original infamous comment dismissed a tool that made a task easier for regular users because the server nerd says: "I can build it in my shed out of rsync and bash using a server I maintain, why should I use this?".

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

#104

Post by edgyquant »

heisgone wrote: post #87

This make perfect sense. Atlassian is cornering the market of "features nobody ask for but make for good sales pitch to clueless managers".

In what world is loom something no one asked for? I, and my team, use it everyday and have at my past two jobs as well. For engineers it’s a life saver being able to share a quick video of some code and the bug youre getting (or asking what some piece of code does) and also forcing junior engineers to do this for a PR guarantees the feature works/is a form of QA.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

#105

Post by ValentinTrinque »

toddmorey wrote: post #92

This is a bummer. I really liked Loom. I was surprised to find some really neat video tools now by Prezi. Who else is doing good stuff around quick async collaboration?

Doist Inc. with Twist (https://twist.com). A sane replacement for slack that focus on making your life easier, and get actual job done by levering the concept of "threads" to make them first-class citizens that bridge the gap between instant chat where direct communication is needed and task manager where you need to declare a discussion to be open or closed.

They side with the "Deep Work" philoshopy, and encourage (written) async collaboration.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

#106

Post by eptcyka »

edgyquant wrote: post #104
heisgone wrote: post #87

This make perfect sense. Atlassian is cornering the market of "features nobody ask for but make for good sales pitch to clueless managers".

In what world is loom something no one asked for? I, and my team, use it everyday and have at my past two jobs as well. For engineers it’s a life saver being able to share a quick video of some code and the bug youre getting (or asking what some piece of code does) and also forcing junior engineers to do this for a PR guarantees the feature works/is a form of QA.

Coming from a deep, shameful corner of ignorance, but what's special about recording a screen and sharing it via the comms tool of choice (IM, Slack, Signal, e-mail)?

I do love the idea of sharing a screen recording of features though.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

#107

Post by objclxt »

thenerdhead wrote: post #97

Glad for the founders, but I cannot help but think this is such an overpriced acquisition for a glorified screen capture tool and ecosystem. Now you can attach videos to jira tickets, seems a bit overkill.

It’s a bargain compared to their Series C valuation in 2021 of $1.5 billion.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

#109

Post by swivelmaster »

eptcyka wrote: post #106
edgyquant wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In what world is loom something no one asked for? I, and my team, use it everyday and have at my past two jobs as well. For engineers it’s a life saver being able to share a quick video of some code and the bug youre getting (or asking what some piece of code does) and also forcing junior engineers to do this for a PR guarantees the feature works/is a form of QA.

Coming from a deep, shameful corner of ignorance, but what's special about recording a screen and sharing it via the comms tool of choice (IM, Slack, Signal, e-mail)? I do love the idea of sharing a screen recording of features though.

It’s well-executed and convenient. That’s worth a lot.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

#110

Post by yesimahuman »

As a loom customer, color me very surprised. I did not expect it to have such a strong business since we generally just sporadically use it and it's a vitamin not a painkiller. Just goes to show how you can't accurately evaluate companies based on your own limited experience. Congrats to the team
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