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It’s fine if you want a barebones chat.
so is IRC
God please let me switch my company to an internal IRC server...
OpenAI should build Slack
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Re: OpenAI should build Slack
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Discord if you don't mind something proprietary, Mattermost or Rocketchat if you do, Zulip if you want something slightly different . . . and no doubt many other alternatives Slack is easy to replace with something cheaper and better on a product or technical level. The network effects are strong of course, but they won't sustain it forever
Discord is a solid product. They just need to launch a simple business-friendly alternative UI without the teenager gamer aesthetics. I’m surprised they never tried going after the enterprise market.
Enterprise doesn't buy chat/meeting products without PSTN interop (dial-in dial-out to traditional phone line). Discord would probably need to double their dev team to add PSTN.
Building something like Slack or Teams to the level that a F500 company would make it their primary videoconferencing solution is a multi-thousand-employee project. It's not a little skunkworks project for 15-20 people in some corner of the office.
That's why TFA is hilariously flawed. When Altman says "tell us what we should build, we'll probably build it!", he's talking about driveways and backyard pools, not the Golden Gate Bridge. It's like asking mall Santa for a summer home in the Hamptons.
Re: OpenAI should build Slack
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It's by and large the slowest, jankiest, laggiest software I use regularly. And I say that as someone who swears Adobe has added a bunch of sleeps in Lightroom. On basic chat: it will sometimes scroll up when I get a new message, while I'm actively participating in that chat, so I need to scroll back down to read the new messages. Occasionally it flickers, for bonus points. It will not mark the chat as read if I'm on…
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Jesus, the bigotry on display in the first sentence.
Re: OpenAI should build Slack
#114signal should just add better API / bot stuff and then we could all use that. there's no way OpenAI would be trustworthy for this; slack certainly isn't
The Signal protocol can’t support large groups of people.
Re: OpenAI should build Slack
#115I use Slack every day, and I love it. Integrations are simple and reliable, giving us useful information about critical things. Why it uses 400mb I have no idea.
because there is a spare copy of Chrome jammed into the app bundle.
Re: OpenAI should build Slack
#116I use Slack every day, and I love it. Integrations are simple and reliable, giving us useful information about critical things. Why it uses 400mb I have no idea.
But it's so unreasonably slow. It lacks basic features like syntax highlighting on ``` blocks. It's basically become a super expensive and painful to use while Discord continues to be a joy. And the 'start a thread' nazis are just too much to bear. Prediction: they will add subthreads within 3 years.
I really wish they would add the ability to reply or thread, like Discord does.
Along with syntax highlighting.
Re: OpenAI should build Slack
#117Bring back IRC
Re: OpenAI should build Slack
#118I use Slack every day, and I love it. Integrations are simple and reliable, giving us useful information about critical things. Why it uses 400mb I have no idea.
Slack would be a lot better if they supported clients via rest api or similar. I want to run it in a terminal window alongside IRC etc. I have no desire to put up with their ridiculous UI/UX decisions
You can't really do chat via rest, you need some kind of socket/sse for chat, otherwise all clients need to poll every second
Re: OpenAI should build Slack
#119I think a slack clone with better message search, a company knowledgebase, and a personal “auto-responder” could be a winner
Re: OpenAI should build Slack
#120I use Slack every day, and I love it. Integrations are simple and reliable, giving us useful information about critical things. Why it uses 400mb I have no idea.
> Why it uses 400mb I have no idea. Yes, this is an important detail as well. Make a Slack clone, but have it perform way better than the original (less RAM, CPU usage), with a smaller storage footprint. Also deliver on features faster than the original. And have those features be more tailored to what the users both want and need - and things they didn’t even know they needed as well. This is, after all, what’s bein…
Then in a few years pull a 1Password in the name of features :sparks-emoji: