Re:Slack will soon start testing voice and video chat
by jhgg on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @02:22PM
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Chat history search is something that's coming soon.
Although the permission system may be something that's complicated, it fits the gamer clan niche well. A lot of people actually have been requesting that we add more complex permission hierarchies.
Re:Slack will soon start testing voice and video chat
by scrollaway on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @02:29PM
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I think your permissions are fine but the weird permission locking of the default room needs to go away. There's no reason that room should be more special than the other ones.
It'd also be nice to make it clearer whether someone can view a specific channel or not (eg see it in the list).
Oh and... IRC gateway? :) Or at least open spec on the protocol, pretty please.
However, for a company, there are a lot of missing features, so definitely take some time to evaluate it first to make sure it's a fit. For example searching chat history (something we miss a great deal, but can live without). Also, the permissions are horrendously complicated and the fact that you can't remove or lock down the "public" room is super annoying.
That being said, we're still using it and pretty happy. It probably doesn't measure up too well against Slack if you don't value the group voice channels.
Just saw the threaded discussions feature for Zulip from a thread in here. Wow, that would be killer.