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Re: OpenAI should build Slack

#11

Post by spprashant »

My personal experience with using Slack as just a in-company chat app has been fine. I enjoy using Slack more than Teams or Discord.

All their integrations kinda suck though, and its not uncommon for integrations to randomly break with no discernible changes elsewhere.

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

#13

Post by simfree »

pwarner wrote: post #4

> Microsoft did, and Teams is by all reports a solid success. Not sure if the author has used Teams. But otherwise, I agree we need an actual good, adorable Slack clone. I thought Google might do this after not buying Slack, but I'm not hearing anything about their solution.

Teams is shovelware. Force bundled, with questionably reliable messaging, okay video calling (if your organization policies don't break it), and a fairly useless Phone System component that misbehaves often.

Great for organizations that believe these forms of communication should be an afterthought that has rough edges and inconsistent reliability.

The recent changes to end webhook support, kill Linux desktop support and do yet another rewrite are inane. Don't expect features you use today in Teams to work in 2 years...

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

#14

Post by giancarlostoro »

spprashant wrote: post #11

My personal experience with using Slack as just a in-company chat app has been fine. I enjoy using Slack more than Teams or Discord. All their integrations kinda suck though, and its not uncommon for integrations to randomly break with no discernible changes elsewhere.

We used to have a local devs slack and any time someone came up with a random slash command one guy would add a new php script to power that command. I assume a lot of it is just an abandoned API that nobody cares about anymore because Microsoft forced Teams into Office so it took over corporate America in waves. I cant remember the last place I worked at that didnt just use Teams.

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

#15

Post by simfree »

Muromec wrote: post #7
pwarner wrote: post #4

> Microsoft did, and Teams is by all reports a solid success. Not sure if the author has used Teams. But otherwise, I agree we need an actual good, adorable Slack clone. I thought Google might do this after not buying Slack, but I'm not hearing anything about their solution.

I use teams at work and it's okay. Not the best, not the worst, but okay piece of software. At least I have both the calendar and the videocall things in one app and see when the call starts, so I don't accidentally ADHD myself into missing it.

Exactly, no on is truly overjoyed with Teams. As shovelware goes it is passable, but that is a low bar

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

#17

Post by MagicMoonlight »

pwarner wrote: post #4

> Microsoft did, and Teams is by all reports a solid success. Not sure if the author has used Teams. But otherwise, I agree we need an actual good, adorable Slack clone. I thought Google might do this after not buying Slack, but I'm not hearing anything about their solution.

What issues do you have with teams?

It works well and there’s nothing I can think of that I want in it. It’s just a video and chat app.

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

#18

Post by 4nonverbal-alit »

MagicMoonlight wrote: post #17
pwarner wrote: post #4

> Microsoft did, and Teams is by all reports a solid success. Not sure if the author has used Teams. But otherwise, I agree we need an actual good, adorable Slack clone. I thought Google might do this after not buying Slack, but I'm not hearing anything about their solution.

What issues do you have with teams? It works well and there’s nothing I can think of that I want in it. It’s just a video and chat app.

Let me clear my cache after logging in twice to get the OOM fixed so I can finally login to show you what’s wrong with it over a teams call and hope it doesn’t logout and reload randomly during the call.
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