$16B on $400m of revenue? Is this high or not too bad?
Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
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Re: Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is Discord superior? I haven't really used it but my first impressions are that it seems very tailored to the gaming community. I have used Slack extensively and it appears more professional. And if Discord is free, how do they make money / keep the lights on? I do worry about Slack's pricing since there is a vast chasm between their free plan and their paid plans. I use Slack to run some open source and hobbyist…
We switched from Slack to Discord in our community and I prefer it. It feels faster to me, the Slack app on a Mac got really slow after a while. I wish Discord added Telegram style voice messages and it would be perfect. To be totally honest I still think forums like phpbb where much better but they didn't really transitioned to the mobile world. I miss them.
Tapatalk is pretty solid for forums on mobile.
Re: Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
#283Crazy. I can't stand the software. Experiment for slack fans: Start talking about something in a channel with ~20 people. Then ask a friend to ask another question in the same channel. What happens? A mess. You now have 2 conversations modeled with a single stream of single-line messages, with no context. One someone starts a conversation in a channel every single other user in that channel now has to wait. (or risk…
Isn’t this what threads are for?
Re: Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know about "well deserved". They did it by holding people's data hostage. It's one thing to make your messages unsearchable or otherwise available in the UI until your pay, but holding your data completely hostage until you pay up isn't exactly a noble way to go about things. Even Facebook isn't this obnoxious about getting you a copy of your message history.
Is that still the case? That there is no way to export message history? I'm trying to find a way to publish messages from my Slack channel to my website in real-time so that I can give visitors a look at what they are signing up for. Similar to how Pieter Levels has nomadlist.com/chat/ set up (if anyone knows how he does that, please let me know).
You could probably write an integration to do this using the real-time messaging API.
Re: Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
#285I miss Screenhero. That was an amazing implementation of an application.
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Re: Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
#286I wish them all the best. But I do hope they stay small in spirit and nimble. One of my favourite things about slack is /feedback and the fact that someone will get back to me within 24hrs. There is no product of this scale that has such a low barrier to feedback/questions/bug report.
Except in my experience they don't actually fix the bugs. For literally years the Slack app would get into a zombie state if your network changed in any way: switched WAPs, got on/off the VPN, switch from wifi to ethernet, etc. The app would still think it had a network connection but it actually didn't. The only way to fix it was with a hard refresh. To this day I still reflexively do a ctrl-r whenever my network changes. Because after reporting this bug to them over and over and over I got fed up and just moved on. I honestly have no idea if the bug has actually been fixed, ctrl-r has just become complete muscle memory for me now.
Re: Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
Downvoters, how is this not relevant? I value knowing who has a vested interest when talking about efficacy.
I haven’t voted either way, but do you have a reference for this claim?
megaremote seems to be located in Australia and was looking for work in May[1], the claim they work for slack seems to be complete fabrication/wishful thinking/cynicism
Re: Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
#288Just throwing out there but has Slack genuinely improved the work lives of anybody? I've used it for my past two jobs and have yet to find a way of using it that doesn't destroy my productivity or make me genuinely afraid of receiving a message and being thrown off what I was doing.
I find Slack to be a good incremental improvement over whatever AOL/MSN/Yahoo/Google IM front-ends we used in the old days. Otherwise nothing new.
Re: Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
#289Re: Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
#290Crazy. I can't stand the software. Experiment for slack fans: Start talking about something in a channel with ~20 people. Then ask a friend to ask another question in the same channel. What happens? A mess. You now have 2 conversations modeled with a single stream of single-line messages, with no context. One someone starts a conversation in a channel every single other user in that channel now has to wait. (or risk…
Isn’t this what threads are for?
I've only used discord -- do threads exist on slack? Or is GP right and lack of threads is a major downfall of chat apps, including slack?