@show_the_maw What isn’t Slack just for those fast emails? Next you’ll be telling me that every piece of business or communication software is not completely interchangeable, or that details can be important.
Anyways, without looking who knows if Slack supports hand waves security.
At my salt mine, we use Hipchat. Word on the street is we’ll be switching to Slack eventually, but we’re all pretty sad to lose the hundreds (yes, hundreds) of custom animated emojis we’ve created.
Nowdays Slack is all whizbang geewhiz howyadoin and you can use it in different ways and it integrates with stuff but I always wondered what the initial appeal was. I’m just not into chat rooms. Basecamp was always my preference.
I detest slack. It’s laggy AF on the crapboxes my office has, which causes ISSUES when you don’t switch from a group channel to a private DM. Expletive filled rants in a DM are one thing, on the group channel for your whole team, not so acceptable.
I use Discord all the time, and my company wanted to use a group chat type program. I was told to look into Slack… It’s literally the same damn thing as Discord. It’s nuts. I like both of them a lot. Easy to use.
A few month’s ago, my cohort of a couple dozen set out to build a Slack competitor, but we eventually got bored and gave because at the end of the day, Slack is beautifully mediocre.
@cercopithecoid Pet peeve of mine: companies responding like Slack did, saying: “We take this very seriously…” That is so cliche. It must be step one in spinning bad news.
The mobile client for slack (my pref, so that I can torment people with swipe keyboard results) allows linefeeds.
“Let me tell you about the entire universe. I’m sure you can deal with total incoherence, and it will be worth your time and energy to interpret my output. Settle down for a while …”
“One more thing. Please be sure to find this all completely fascinating.”
Anyone remember off the top of their heads what the linefeed codes are?
Do those work, by any chance, in desktop Google Hangouts?
@j8048188 I wouldn’t call it horrible. We started using Office Communicator early and then migrated to Lync and then Skype for Business as Microsoft kept renaming it.
I don’t go into an office. Skype for Business is my office phone and my IM and where I have meetings (voice, demos, slide shows, whatever). Some of our big customers use it, too, so we can have meetings with them. And just chat with them. It’s handy when I’m in a data center and can’t hear shit. And the Android app works OK.
It could be worse. And I have no say in what we use, so whatever.
I love Slack, works very well for our distributed team. We also use it for production error notifications, release notices, building notices etc. One of the best parts is the ability to invite clients to a guest channel, which cuts the email chatter down greatly and exposes their needs to the whole team, not just whoever happens to be on a particular email.
How do I put this…we don’t use ANYTHING. People physically show up from other sites and a conference call is considered “complicated”. Most people barely have a handle on basic email.
We had slack for a good year but then the powers that be recently made us all switch over to Teams. What a pisspoor subsitute.
@show_the_maw do we work at the same company? Lol.
@show_the_maw What isn’t Slack just for those fast emails? Next you’ll be telling me that every piece of business or communication software is not completely interchangeable, or that details can be important.
Anyways, without looking who knows if Slack supports hand waves security.
Nope. We use HipChat. Unfortunately.
@nickman Hopefully you guy’s can transition to Stride. No one should have to use HipChat. No one.
@NotAdmin @nickman Stride looks pretty interesting to me. I wonder if it really solves the problem of having organized conversation.
At my salt mine, we use Hipchat. Word on the street is we’ll be switching to Slack eventually, but we’re all pretty sad to lose the hundreds (yes, hundreds) of custom animated emojis we’ve created.
/image slack subgenius
@UncleVinny i hope you can find a way to migrate them to Slack!
@UncleVinny
Nowdays Slack is all whizbang geewhiz howyadoin and you can use it in different ways and it integrates with stuff but I always wondered what the initial appeal was. I’m just not into chat rooms. Basecamp was always my preference.
@awk But but but chat rooms?
I suppose, but I think text messaging when I see Slack.
Funny how that works. Texting looks like a chat room but I had forgotten all about chat rooms.
/giphy work?
@Ignorant Finally, Giphy FTW.
Not my work. Ohhhhhh Nooooooooo.
@mfladd
I detest slack. It’s laggy AF on the crapboxes my office has, which causes ISSUES when you don’t switch from a group channel to a private DM. Expletive filled rants in a DM are one thing, on the group channel for your whole team, not so acceptable.
I use Discord all the time, and my company wanted to use a group chat type program. I was told to look into Slack… It’s literally the same damn thing as Discord. It’s nuts. I like both of them a lot. Easy to use.
@ThoR294 Because both discord and Slack are IRC. Discord is post slack
A few month’s ago, my cohort of a couple dozen set out to build a Slack competitor, but we eventually got bored and gave because at the end of the day, Slack is beautifully mediocre.
/giphy Slack animals
Unsigned Linux versions. Bad developer!
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/21/slack_linux/
@cercopithecoid Pet peeve of mine: companies responding like Slack did, saying: “We take this very seriously…” That is so cliche. It must be step one in spinning bad news.
I have used it some on contract jobs and love it. I wish the current place I’m working had it.
We’re staying with HipChat only because there’s no way on Windows to make Slack’s notifications stay on screen until you’re ready to deal with them.
I’ve got my parents on Slack though.
/giphy slackline
I like the clients and services that allow for working linefeeds in a chat window, on both desktop and a mobile app.
Otherwise it’s a PITA to get long-winded.
@f00l Shift+Enter for a line feed or Enter for a line feed?
@f00l I can see how good support for long-windedness would be important to you
I was looking for one of those on Skype the other day. On Windows at least, Alt-Enter inside a chat starts a call.
@GLaDOS
Thanks.
Will try that on Discord.
The mobile client for slack (my pref, so that I can torment people with swipe keyboard results) allows linefeeds.
“Let me tell you about the entire universe. I’m sure you can deal with total incoherence, and it will be worth your time and energy to interpret my output. Settle down for a while …”
“One more thing. Please be sure to find this all completely fascinating.”
Anyone remember off the top of their heads what the linefeed codes are?
Do those work, by any chance, in desktop Google Hangouts?
Recently migrated from Skype to Skype for Business(Lync.) Both are terrible.
@j8048188 I wouldn’t call it horrible. We started using Office Communicator early and then migrated to Lync and then Skype for Business as Microsoft kept renaming it.
I don’t go into an office. Skype for Business is my office phone and my IM and where I have meetings (voice, demos, slide shows, whatever). Some of our big customers use it, too, so we can have meetings with them. And just chat with them. It’s handy when I’m in a data center and can’t hear shit. And the Android app works OK.
It could be worse. And I have no say in what we use, so whatever.
@craigthom Too bad MS is moving away from Skype for Business then?
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/25/16360072/microsoft-teams-replacing-skype-for-business
@GLaDOS oh, well. I’ll move over when they tell me to.
I love Slack, works very well for our distributed team. We also use it for production error notifications, release notices, building notices etc. One of the best parts is the ability to invite clients to a guest channel, which cuts the email chatter down greatly and exposes their needs to the whole team, not just whoever happens to be on a particular email.
How do I put this…we don’t use ANYTHING. People physically show up from other sites and a conference call is considered “complicated”. Most people barely have a handle on basic email.
No, we don’t use Slack. We use this nifty little messaging thing call AIM. It’s from AOL so you know it’s going to be around forever.
@therealjrn I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic, or not, but if not, you may want to check out the topic titled AIM.
@TheCO2 The “going to be around forever” part makes it pretty obvious.
@craigthom I was thinking so, but you never know.
Ahem… no.
We are very old fashioned and talk face to face. Occasionally we call each other.
@callow I wish my meetings were with people in the same building instead of four or five states and three or four countries.
The text option helps a lot with accents (the foreign ones, too).
weird, i just brought this up in the forums yesterday. i don’t use it because i don’t have coworkers. my partner does though, and likes it very much.
I mean, I slack at work.
@okeefen
Excellent.
@okeefen But, what about Bob?
I’ve used Slack(ware) before. Nice lean version of Linux.
I’m in many different slacks for various communities, but none of them are for work. At work we use Skype for Business and it’s pretty terrible.