Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy
by popmystack on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @10:13AM
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I'm going to have to strongly disagree that "slack showed us all how it's done." Trust me when I say, I am being forced to use Slack on a daily basis and I want nothing more for it to crash and burn.
Give me MSN Messenger and IRC again -- you know things that actually worked.
Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy
by ant6n on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @08:52AM
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Slack on desktop is a resource hog. And connection hog.
Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy
by talideon on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @11:11AM
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If you can, give ScudCloud a look. While like the regular Slack desktop client, it's essentially a browser window, I've found that overall it works that bit better than the official client.
Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy
by lmm on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @09:13AM
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I believe you. But I have a surfeit of resources on my desktop. The slack mobile app performs well, which is where performance is important, and the desktop version is good enough.
Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy
by crdoconnor on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @06:19AM
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>Skype used to be great (this predates the MS switchover).
It predates being bought by ebay too.
Sadly the increasingly forced updates always made the UI/UX worse, the phone client was a resource hog, and they weren't quick enough with a user-friendly web client. Meanwhile Slack showed us all how it's done.
I'm genuinely trying to get my friends to switch to AIM - as far as I can tell that's the free option that comes closest to getting it right.