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Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by wpietri »

e40 wrote: post #76
skrowl wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried Discord? It's geared towards gamers but it's got most of the features we needed from Slack. More info: https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500098275...

I have to +1 this. I use it to communicate with my son, who resisted my efforts to get him to reply to my emails (since youngsters hate email, apparently) or join a family slack.

Sad to say it, but it seems like email is the new fax machine. At least in terms of the younger generation's perception of it as a communications technology.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by wpietri »

e40 wrote: post #79
Mindstormy wrote: post #22

I use screenhero daily for work and I am incredibly sad to see it go, even though we all knew this day was coming. It hits even harder for me since my company just moved us off of slack due to their lack of hippa compliance and cost issues, so not only is the standalone screenhero gone, I've lost the ability to use it in slack too. Does anyone have a good suggestion for an alternative?

You mean HIPAA? Assuming so, what were the issues?

I'm curious too. Slack claims HIPAA compliance: https://slack.com/security

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by michaelmrose »

ledbettj wrote: post #65
eikenberry wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slack's beta Linux client already supports video calling and screen sharing.

Does not seem to work under Wayland. You can see the mouse pointer, but the rest of the screen is black. Haven't tried it under X yet.

Don't worry I'm sure it will work in 5 or 6 years when they get around to implementing this functionality in some subtly incompatible way on each major desktop environment.

Since its impossible to implement something that works across multiple environments hopefully whichever one does the best job of providing this feature also does a decent job of providing every other feature that previously was able to be provided by any app.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by dragon_king »

hsod wrote: post #66
jlehuraux wrote: post #60

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Have you tried USE Together? Collaborative screen sharing with multiple mouse cursors and simple web browser access. Currently in free beta, we are working hard on Mac support, coming really soon :) http://www.use-together.com

Note that this user appears to work for the company which makes this product

He does say "we" in his last sentence.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by austenallred »

ballenf wrote: post #54
austenallred wrote: post #27

Can someone tell me how screenhero performs in a call of 50+ people? We teach classes, and Slack is our home base, so Screenhero would be great, but I’m not sure of how it scales.

As of 12 months ago, I inevitably had problems with more than 3-4 people in a session. But that was mainly when we'd try to rotate presenters. Got used to restarting the call in order to pass the baton. Even without rotating however, there would often be connectivity issues where someone had to drop off and reconnect. That slowed us down with small groups, so if you had to pause anytime one of 50 people had connectiv…

We use Zoom and it’s fantastic, just not as tightly integrated into Slack.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by rthille »

Osiris wrote: post #30
davideous wrote: post #19

Stand-alone ScreenHero sharing is smooth as butter -- truly amazing. Controlling a remote computer feels local. Right now I'm using the slack-integrated "ScreenHero", and it's really laggy. This is super disappointing, and painful to use. It's actually making the mouse pointer of the person sharing lag for them. Slack: please keep the stand-alone ScreenHero until you make the integrated one have the same performance.

Why has "smooth as butter" become such an overly used phrase in the tech world? Listening to the last Apple product release I must have heard the word butter a few dozen times. I don't know about anyone else but this phrase is really starting to annoy me. It's overly used, and the word "butter" in my mind is closer to "greasy", like "don't touch it with your finger because it'll get slimy and you'll have to wash your…

"smooth as a Quantum stabilized atom mirror" just doesn't have the same ring to it...

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by anderiv »

wpietri wrote: post #92
e40 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean HIPAA? Assuming so, what were the issues?

I'm curious too. Slack claims HIPAA compliance: https://slack.com/security

Many companies claim HIPAA compliance. That doesn't mean much, though, unless they're willing to sign a BAA with their customers. I don't have direct experience with this and our Slack usage, but I'm guessing this is where the disconnect is.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by stickfigure »

wpietri wrote: post #91
e40 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to +1 this. I use it to communicate with my son, who resisted my efforts to get him to reply to my emails (since youngsters hate email, apparently) or join a family slack.

Sad to say it, but it seems like email is the new fax machine. At least in terms of the younger generation's perception of it as a communications technology.

When they're old enough to work they'll be forced to interact with people who aren't their friends, and then they'll discover a new appreciation for email.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by FLGMwt »

jsherwani wrote: post #14
tedmiston wrote: post #7

Screenhero is hands down the best (smoothest) screen sharing app I've ever used. It's bittersweet to see them acquired by Slack as a paid only feature, but I'm happy for the team and it seems like a very ideal kind of acquisition where they solve a problem Slack has and wasn't solving well, and then Slack can scale the Screenhero userbase overnight. Edit: I just tried this feature in Slack with /call then enabling ot…

Screenhero co-founder here. We're committed to making Slack Calls better, and have a number of upcoming improvements in the works.

Hi there. Thanks for building a truly great product and congrats on the acquisition.

I know your hands are tied to some degree about all this, but I'll make a plea regardless.

We use Screenhero regularly. It is the critical tool for enabling remote collaboration which is a big deal for our distributed teams (all of them).

Our corporate firewall blocks Slack. Plenty of us are upset about that, but it's life for us. As of December 1, we can't use Screenhero anymore and this will be pretty disruptive for us.

We'll find some way to deal, but this is disappointing.

Re: Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

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Post by bbarn »

We user both Slack and Screenhero at work. This is not a move I'm looking forward to. Slack's Video/Audio issues are so many that we also still use webex for person to person video chats more often than not. I've been nothing but disappointed every time I've tried to use slack for something that's not text based chatting.
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