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I haven't used a tool like Slack that I have so strongly integrated into my tech ecosystem. It seamlessly fit in with everything I use and is always up on my computer.
Is there anything that you can't use an IRC bot + Pagerduty/OpsGenie/etc for that Slack does integration wise?
For those that are confused about the value of Slack – It's not just about text chat. It's about comprehensive search and combatting organizational forgetfulness and knowledge drain. If we put it on Slack, it's archived "forever" and a team member a few years from now can start with a Slack search before re-inventing the wheel. This is especially evident with the integrations. If just the relevant slice of data is fe…
If we put it on Slack, it's archived "forever" and a team member a few years from now can start with a Slack search before re-inventing the wheel. Heard that one before. If Slack gets eaten by Google etc...that might not be the case. I am preferential to self hosted solutions.
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I feel similarly. Of course there are tons of people saying "no no no, it's not a bubble", but historically, bubbles were never acknowledged until they bursted.
"but historically, bubbles were never acknowledged until they bursted." What does it mean when there are more people shouting bubble than those who deny it?
But, there may (or may not) be a bubble going on despite this.
Ultimately whether it is viewed as a bubble in 10 or 20 years depends entirely on whether enough investors get burned and burned big enough that they stop investing, just like what happened in the early 00's.
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Is there anything that you can't use an IRC bot + Pagerduty/OpsGenie/etc for that Slack does integration wise?
Yes, exactly one: getting all of your organization's non-technical users to use it.
Capital costs are low and slack is probably cash flow positive. Why are they raising a Series E for this much money? That's enough to pay for thousands of employees.
They must have something up their sleeve beyond just chat. My theory is investment is flowing into slack because enterprise was so quick to adopt them, and slack now has its foot in the door at many of the largest companies. This puts them in a position to compete with Dropbox, Box, and other enterprise-focused companies.
Slack is playing in a field much bigger than corporate chat. They are a new entrant into the enterprise platform wars and seemingly more agile than Dropbox et al. I imagine investors are putting money into this advantage position more than the slack product itself.
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I haven't used a tool like Slack that I have so strongly integrated into my tech ecosystem. It seamlessly fit in with everything I use and is always up on my computer.
Is there anything that you can't use an IRC bot + Pagerduty/OpsGenie/etc for that Slack does integration wise?
There's only so much a bot can do, and the presentation of IRC varies wildly between clients. Slack normalizes all of that, which for casual users is huge.
Clearly it's drawn a lot of inspiration from IRC, and rightly so, but it's measurably better in a number of significant regards.
There's still a place for IRC and XMPP, but where Slack is a good fit, it's a great fit.
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Is there anything that you can't use an IRC bot + Pagerduty/OpsGenie/etc for that Slack does integration wise?
IRC is quite capable, but Slack is like IRC without all the rough edges and with a nice API. There's only so much a bot can do, and the presentation of IRC varies wildly between clients. Slack normalizes all of that, which for casual users is huge. Clearly it's drawn a lot of inspiration from IRC, and rightly so, but it's measurably better in a number of significant regards. There's still a place for IRC and XMPP, bu…
YMMV. Thanks
Do platforms like Slack really offer a great benefit to a business? Maybe I'm being cynical, but it seems that if you had a dysfunctional organisation then this is not a silver bullet, and if you had a well functioning organisation you would manage just fine with old fashioned tools like email and Dropbox. > Support for private groups and 1:1 direct messaging gives you complete flexibility. Private things stay privat…
It's just chat. We've had chat services for a long time, although the options for biz/corporate/enterprise have traditionally sucked. There is a lot of efficiency gained since emails can often be heavy and include lots of extra wording, signatures, greetings, etc. There are plenty of conversations that just move faster through a lightweight chat system. Lots of companies were using MSN, Skype, Lync, Gmail, IRC, etc t…
No, it is not "just chat." Chat is just one function. Slack basically brings ALL of the information that is relevant to your team in one place. It has out-of-the-box integrations with a TON of services, and all the data they are sending to your team's Slack feed can then be search on, which provides massive productivity advantages.
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Is there anything that you can't use an IRC bot + Pagerduty/OpsGenie/etc for that Slack does integration wise?
IRC is quite capable, but Slack is like IRC without all the rough edges and with a nice API. There's only so much a bot can do, and the presentation of IRC varies wildly between clients. Slack normalizes all of that, which for casual users is huge. Clearly it's drawn a lot of inspiration from IRC, and rightly so, but it's measurably better in a number of significant regards. There's still a place for IRC and XMPP, bu…
While I also like the polished UX, I'd argue that the only real value that slack adds on top of IRC is the UI/X and integrated history - the latter being something that IRC just plain lacks.
who would have thought you could make a chat room in 2013 and become a billionaire