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Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by bitexploder »

rythmshifter03 wrote: post #22
nate wrote: post #15

One fun thing we discovered an outage or two ago: Zoom, which is likely already on your computer too, has a very Slack-like Chat feature. Open up the Zoom app, then click the Chat icon in the top header. You probably missed it this entire time. You can make rooms, DMs, animated gifs, the works :)

Please don't encourage the use of Zoom, they already have enough market share they don't deserve after lying through their teeth to the public on multiple occasions.

What alternatives do you recommend? As far as I can tell none of the major video conferencing solutions are made by companies I think are any more trustworthy than Zoom at this point. Plus Google and others ran a focused assassination campaign against Zoom at the start of the pandemic to claw some of their market share.

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by shadowgovt »

tombert wrote: post #30

Things like this remind me how dependent I am on IM for doing any work, which is weird because it doesn't feel like that should be the case. If you were to measure the raw number of seconds I spend sending IMs, it would be a relatively low percentage of my day, but I always forget how vital that percentage actually is. As it stands, while I'm not fully blocked from being productive, I am blocked for a lot of work tha…

Yep. Especially if your development flow has integrated Slack alerts.

Coupled with COVID work-from-home constraints, there's no practical way right now to get code reviewed for merge into the main codebase 'round these parts.

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by anderspitman »

The cool thing about Slack (and Discord for that matter) is that it's essentially federated on a technical level. SlackHQ controls all the instances, but the UX is very achievable by an open source alternative. I'm bullish on federated chat in the next few years.

It would be awesome to have essentially the same experience as using Slack, but also a server running on our lab's hardware that we can reboot/debug ourselves.

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by djbusby »

bitexploder wrote: post #31
rythmshifter03 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't encourage the use of Zoom, they already have enough market share they don't deserve after lying through their teeth to the public on multiple occasions.

What alternatives do you recommend? As far as I can tell none of the major video conferencing solutions are made by companies I think are any more trustworthy than Zoom at this point. Plus Google and others ran a focused assassination campaign against Zoom at the start of the pandemic to claw some of their market share.

Mattermost has replaced Slack here and I don't miss it at all. Jitsi Meet is pretty good for a/v

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by whalesalad »

anderspitman wrote: post #36

The cool thing about Slack (and Discord for that matter) is that it's essentially federated on a technical level. SlackHQ controls all the instances, but the UX is very achievable by an open source alternative. I'm bullish on federated chat in the next few years. It would be awesome to have essentially the same experience as using Slack, but also a server running on our lab's hardware that we can reboot/debug ourselv…

https://mattermost.com

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by cure »

bitexploder wrote: post #31
rythmshifter03 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't encourage the use of Zoom, they already have enough market share they don't deserve after lying through their teeth to the public on multiple occasions.

What alternatives do you recommend? As far as I can tell none of the major video conferencing solutions are made by companies I think are any more trustworthy than Zoom at this point. Plus Google and others ran a focused assassination campaign against Zoom at the start of the pandemic to claw some of their market share.

There is Matrix (https://matrix.org) which now integrates nicely with Jitsi (https://jitsi.org). There's also BigBlueButton (https://bigbluebutton.org).
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