Re:Slack's bait and switch
by black_puppydog on Monday March 12, 2018 @10:55AM
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> I don't want someone else putting inline videos or markup into my feed.
That is of course your personal choice, no arguing with it. I'm thinking of projects where communicating with/about videos and images is an integral part of the work. Think image processing for example. In that context a message of the kind "Hey, I tried this new method, look what I got as a result [image]" can make tons of sense.
If you don't need images, you don't have to use them. If the person on the other end of the chat insists on sending them anyway, why are you talking to them? :P
So maybe the issue is just that this sort of features should really be enabled client-side. Which you could do fine with an intelligent IRC client.
Re:Slack's bait and switch
by abritinthebay on Monday March 12, 2018 @10:38AM
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If they don’t see the value but everyone else dies then they are an outlier.
That’s absolutely ok, as long as they understand that and that at some point the value is in network effects too
What if they do see the difference and don't see the value in it? This is worth considering.
> where I can post images/videos inline, use proper markup etc
I don't want someone else putting inline videos or markup into my feed. In IRC people post links, most of which I happily ignore at very low cost because they're not important to anything.