Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others
by distances on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:47AM
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> It's primary usage wasn't internal communication but rather communication around social media.
What makes you think that? I don't see any connection between Flowdock and social media. As far as I can see, it's purely an internal communication tool with easy file sharing, hooks for external services as GitHub, and so on.
Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others
by ThomPete on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:11AM
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As far as I remember it started as that. But maybe that's not accurate. I just remember them pushing how twitter could be monitored and then important tweets could be send around the organization to deal with them.
Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others
by distances on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:27AM
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That feature is a flow (or channel) specific "inbox". You can add different sources such as e-mail, GitHub pushes, CI results, or the Twitter you mentioned. Basically looks like an in-channel RSS feed of different sources. Personally I love the feature.
A neat thing is that you can start a discussion thread from any of these items, so the context of the discussion is clear.
Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others
by ThomPete on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:32AM
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Oh I like FlowDock a lot was just trying to explain how I believe Slack won over it by being less opinionated about how it approaches conversation. It's IRC core functionality and then apps on top for specific needs.
Flowdock went a little further ahead when it came to how they constructed the base communication.
Slack took the simplicity of IRC and gave it a modern interface with things like showing a preview when you link. easily share files etc.