Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers

Post by ec109685 » Thu, Feb 22, 2018, 4:55 AM UTC

Fishkins wrote: post #82

bpicolo wrote: post #18

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More likely it's just that HipChat isn't a great product experience. As an example, the only way to edit a message is to use a sed-style "s/foo/bar", which is absurd. Because of this, you can't edit messages other than the most recent one, and if you want to edit one instance of "foo" but not another instance of "foo" you're out of luck. That's a terrible piece of UX even if you're in the only subset of users (softwa…

One time I was trying to correct and "its" that should've been an "it's", but I didn't realized there was a preceding, correct "its" in the post. I ended up changing that "its" to an incorrect "it's", while also leaving the following incorrect "its". It was inconsequential, but very frustrating. As a sibling comment said, the main reason my team abandoned Hipchat for Slack was Hipchat was hopelessly buggy and unrelia…

Post by bgibson » Sat, Feb 24, 2018, 8:59 PM UTC

dorian-graph wrote: post #31

bgibson wrote: post #12

Haven't used Stride yet but as someone who hates always-on chat I could see myself really appreciating its deep work oriented features: mute notifications, allow others in the channel to mark things as "task", "decision", "outcome" so you can go back and find important things you missed while deep working. https://www.stride.com

You might appreciate https://twistapp.com then.

Post by dorian-graph » Sat, Feb 24, 2018, 10:04 PM UTC

dabernathy89 wrote: post #48

dorian-graph wrote: post #31

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You might appreciate https://twistapp.com then.

Oooh, this looks really nice. Threads in Slack still feel like an afterthought, and this appears to do them right.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 03, 2018, 4:17 PM UTC

madeofpalk wrote: post #132

itomato wrote: post #129

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I observed chatbots in IRC probably before you were born.

I'm sure you did. That's completely irrelevant though.

Post by snowsquirrel » Tue, Mar 06, 2018, 2:35 PM UTC

cowmix wrote: post #11

hartator wrote: post #4

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Stride is just re-branded HipChat.

Stride is a complete rewrite.