We Tried Slack and Regretted It
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We Tried Slack and Regretted It
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Re: We Tried Slack and Regretted It
#2I've had the pleasure of dealing with the Gitter team, and they are an awesomely talented bunch of devs.
Re: We Tried Slack and Regretted It
#3Jesus, what a mess. Sounds like someone made a decision without doing even a modicum of research into pricing. Bowing to peer pressure just means someone is managing by consensus.
Re: We Tried Slack and Regretted It
#4Jesus, what a mess. Sounds like someone made a decision without doing even a modicum of research into pricing. Bowing to peer pressure just means someone is managing by consensus.
Yep. Jumping to a platform about which you know nothing is asking for trouble, no matter the context.
Re: We Tried Slack and Regretted It
#5It sounds like they didn't do any research into what Slack's limitations are.
Also, frankly, if I were Slack I would not invest in supporting this use case at all. Massive free chat rooms are not a profitable space to be in.
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#6Site does not resolve for me, here is the google cache link:
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Re: We Tried Slack and Regretted It
#7The one thing that has me mostly abandoning Gitter is that switching channels is incredibly slow on the browser.
If Gitter had a standalone client, I'd be willing to give it another shot, but until then, I'm a proponent of using IRC & Slack.
Re: We Tried Slack and Regretted It
#8Jesus, what a mess. Sounds like someone made a decision without doing even a modicum of research into pricing. Bowing to peer pressure just means someone is managing by consensus.
Hard to really fault him since he ran into an undisclosed max user limit, no?
Re: We Tried Slack and Regretted It
#9Jesus, what a mess. Sounds like someone made a decision without doing even a modicum of research into pricing. Bowing to peer pressure just means someone is managing by consensus.
Sorry slightly off topic. But I need to know this.
wait wait wait ... managing by consensus is .... bad?
Where can I learn more about this to build consensus at my office that this is bad (because consensus is how all decisions are made)?
Re: We Tried Slack and Regretted It
#10It sounds like they didn't do any research into what Slack's limitations are. Also, frankly, if I were Slack I would not invest in supporting this use case at all. Massive free chat rooms are not a profitable space to be in.
It depends on the community. For this one, it's a bunch of folks learning to code and getting coding jobs; I can imagine many of those ending up working at tech companies who might be great Slack customers, and evangelising because they had such a great experience using it - so the investment of supporting a 'free' chat room could pay off over time.