Slack Calls: Now with video

Sorry I didn't mean for this to be divisive or rude. I wasn't aware this was a common observation. I'm not trying to be negative or incriminate the product. I use and enjoy slack every day.

Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by FooBarWidget » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 7:35 PM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #4

Does slack feel like IRC to anybody else? Sorry I didn't mean for this to be divisive or rude. I wasn't aware this was a common observation. I'm not trying to be negative or incriminate the product. I use and enjoy slack every day.

Not sure what you want to say with that statement. Slack has a ton more features than IRC, so until IRC catches up and is easy to maintain I couldn't care less what Slack is written in.

Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by Navarr » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 7:37 PM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #4

Does slack feel like IRC to anybody else? Sorry I didn't mean for this to be divisive or rude. I wasn't aware this was a common observation. I'm not trying to be negative or incriminate the product. I use and enjoy slack every day.

That's mostly what Slack is and why people like it.

IRC was (and still IS) good. Slack is basically a modern way to view and utilize the same basic system. It also made it very easy for developers to integrate components (whereas IRC you'd have to search out some way to do such integrations) - and with the "special" UX that they control they could add things like button actions on messages.

A client like Slack for IRC with some of the newer IRC RFCs could potentially work just as well - as long as the UX and push notifications etc were nailed.

Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by slantyyz » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 7:37 PM UTC

joshmanders wrote: post #3

I hope screen sharing comes soon. They bought Screen Hero a while back, and said they were integrating it.

I was thinking the same, and actually looked into it after seeing this headline.

If you are a paid subscriber to Slack, you can add the app to your Slack account for free. You still have to sign up for Screen Hero as well, but at least you can do it.

link: https://slack.com/screenhero

Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by DoodleBuggy » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 7:40 PM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #4

Does slack feel like IRC to anybody else? Sorry I didn't mean for this to be divisive or rude. I wasn't aware this was a common observation. I'm not trying to be negative or incriminate the product. I use and enjoy slack every day.

That's pretty much exactly what it is, to me anyway. It's IRC for non-technical people (not that IRC is particularly technical, but...)

Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by newjobseeker » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 7:43 PM UTC

joshmanders wrote: post #3

I hope screen sharing comes soon. They bought Screen Hero a while back, and said they were integrating it.

You can use Screenleap in Slack: https://www.screenleap.com/slack-integration

Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by schmichael » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 7:44 PM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #4

Does slack feel like IRC to anybody else? Sorry I didn't mean for this to be divisive or rude. I wasn't aware this was a common observation. I'm not trying to be negative or incriminate the product. I use and enjoy slack every day.

This is an odd question to ask when the feature being announced, video call integration, is definitely not available in IRC.

Slack is "just IRC" as much as vim is "just ed."