Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others

Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by ajdlinux on Thursday July 27, 2017 @01:34AM (#14862919)

> I know this makes me sound old, but I really wish popular open source projects would just stick to IRC as it just works

I agree that Slack is pretty painful - the Linux client may as well be unsupported.

But it's still a hell of a lot better than when everyone in my office had to run their own ZNC bouncer.

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Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by calcifer on Thursday July 27, 2017 @01:44AM (#14862938)

I've been using the Linux client pretty much since its initial release and it's been nothing short of perfect for me. No problems with updates either. What problems do you have?

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Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by ajdlinux on Thursday July 27, 2017 @02:14AM (#14863033)

My two specific problems: I have an unresolved bug report open with them regarding failing to clear notifications, and the Linux client is the only of the 3 desktop clients that doesn't allow you to switch off the notifications dot, which is a super basic feature.

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Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by pmiller2 on Thursday July 27, 2017 @02:03AM (#14862986)

I used to get random crashes when I ran it on Ubuntu. This was over a year ago, so things might have changed.

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Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by scaryclam on Thursday July 27, 2017 @03:50AM (#14863415)

Unfortunately they haven't. We recently moved away from slack because it's just too buggy using the desktop clients and nobody wants to have to keep it open in a browser the whole time.

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