Re:Slack's bait and switch
by petre on Monday March 12, 2018 @01:00PM
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Apart from Jira and Confluence, Atlassian also has a team communication product called Stride, which is free to used under certain plans. Are there any advantages to using Slack over Stride? I've heard a lot of people complain how Slack is Electron based and a resource hog.
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Re:Slack's bait and switch
by mwarkentin on Monday March 12, 2018 @11:09PM
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Mainly the ecosystem effect. Lots of integrations are slack only for quite a while. Not sure if hipchat integrations are compatible w/ stride or not.
It totally is a hog; but most of all you miss the tight integration with Jira/Confluence offered by Stride. But then Slack is a cool so it has that going for it
slack's desktop client is electron based, and while people may bitch about it they don't actually have to use it. the web ui (which is just shoved in an electron wrapper for the desktop client) lacks a few of the desktop features but nothing major. it's pretty usable for anyone who hates electron.
The biggest thing I'm missing is a quick way to switch between groups. Unless there's some kind of shortcut or other thing I'm missing.