As long as we can get rid of Skype and Webex with a single tool, I'd be more than happy
Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
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Re: Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
#92Now we have Slack, Discord, Gitter, Microsoft Teams, and Atlassian Stride. I'm not sure when chat rooms became a business tool. Personally, I find myself distracted more than anything from all the notifications these apps cause, I get less done. I have to be sure to quit every chat app and put my phone in "do not disturb" to disconnect and focus, and then I get coworkers mad that I'm not online. At least with email I…
matrix.org/riot.im (if you want open source protocol and client. it also has bridges to most others)
Past that, the user experience is great. Easy to get signed up and messaging.
Re: Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
#93Now we have Slack, Discord, Gitter, Microsoft Teams, and Atlassian Stride. I'm not sure when chat rooms became a business tool. Personally, I find myself distracted more than anything from all the notifications these apps cause, I get less done. I have to be sure to quit every chat app and put my phone in "do not disturb" to disconnect and focus, and then I get coworkers mad that I'm not online. At least with email I…
Discord is more in line with TeamSpeak and Mumble; being that it's targeting gamers.
We use Discord for all communications at my company, including now our video chats. We are fully remote and Discord is so much better than Hangouts it's not even funny.
I've also transferred all my skype and hangouts contact lists into Discord. It's a lovely tool, lock in be damned.
Re: Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish people used IRC instead of all of these proprietary tools. I don't love the Slack client, xchat is much better.
Agreed, there is little that Slack gives me IRC doesn't, a good client and I'm set.
> a good client
What IRC client provides:
- inline image uploads
- multiline messages
- chat search, including messages sent while your client is offline
- pretty code formatting
- pretty text formatting
- file uploads
- user management
I know that IRC accomplishes something like 95% of what a team needs to communicate, but Slack absolutely shines at that last 5%. We currently use Hipchat, and it supports a lot of what I mentioned above, but it supports it badly and it hurts to use by comparison, when I'm in slack for other non-work teams.
We need to stop pretending that IRC is a good solution, and admit that it's only a "good enough" solution. It's an MVP you ship to prove to your customers or investors that you've got something, it's not a product you'd spend money to market.
Re: Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
#95I thought HipChat was their Slack competitor? Jesus christ make up your minds people
HipChat was them buying time to compete with Slack.
Re: Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
#96Now we have Slack, Discord, Gitter, Microsoft Teams, and Atlassian Stride. I'm not sure when chat rooms became a business tool. Personally, I find myself distracted more than anything from all the notifications these apps cause, I get less done. I have to be sure to quit every chat app and put my phone in "do not disturb" to disconnect and focus, and then I get coworkers mad that I'm not online. At least with email I…
The issue is that these chat apps are inherently distracting. They work well for tight synchronous communication in small coherent groups.
You might want to check out https://tmail21.com which was built from scratch for Deep Collaboration and Deep Work.
Disclaimer: I'm part of the TMail21 team.
Re: Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
#97Now we have Slack, Discord, Gitter, Microsoft Teams, and Atlassian Stride. I'm not sure when chat rooms became a business tool. Personally, I find myself distracted more than anything from all the notifications these apps cause, I get less done. I have to be sure to quit every chat app and put my phone in "do not disturb" to disconnect and focus, and then I get coworkers mad that I'm not online. At least with email I…
There was this one thing called hipchat.. by Atlassian right?
They acquired it. I'm wondering if Stride came directly from that or was built separately.
Re: Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
#98I was ready to hate on this as just another Slack clone, but its unique features (actions and decisions) sound pretty great. Those combined with the Focus Mode sound like what Slack needs to have, to be honest.
Actions appears to be the only new thing; Decisions looks just like pinning a specific message in Slack based on the screenshots.
Re: Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
#99I was ready to hate on this as just another Slack clone, but its unique features (actions and decisions) sound pretty great. Those combined with the Focus Mode sound like what Slack needs to have, to be honest.
Slack is just another IRC clone anyway... :-)
And cellphones are just a clone of Marconi's radio.
Re: Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
#100> There also is emoji and Giphy support, of course. But why? It seems that Stride is trying to be the more productive version of Slack, and I think action items and decision notes have potential, but if I keep getting :partyparrot: instead of information related to my job, I'm going to keep basically ignoring my communications app.
> Giphy support
I will come down hard on anyone in a room that just starts hunting for a magically relevant giphy gif by spamming the room. Fuck Giphy and their irrelevant search results, but fuck even harder people who love to dilute the signal-to-noise ratio.