Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
by alanfranzoni on Thursday July 26, 2018 @06:05PM
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Your suggestions may work inside a company. E-mail is the only federated system we've left. If you need to contact somebody outside it, you're screwed. XMPP/Jabber could have solved some of this, but it's pretty dead right now.
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I generally agree with greg, and that covers 90% of the cases, for the times where Email is used with external entities, it usually gets dumped into issue tracking / wiki
Most work communication is usually within our issue tracking system
We use slack very lightly,
- most of our conversations are face to face but anumber of remote employees, and slack is used instead of face to face. Often for video calls
- copy pasting things to other people
- a sort of mini internal HN where links are posted to interesting things in the dev world and we discuss
- prodding people "Oi, my PR is still waiting .... " "did you setup ... ?" etc
- telling people where we went to lunch so they can find us.
Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
by throwaway1555 on Thursday July 26, 2018 @06:15PM
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The org I work for has a bunch of Slack channels that we invite our clients into as single channel guests (If they don't already use Slack). We have Gov & corporate using it without issue and they love it.
Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
by rrdharan on Thursday July 26, 2018 @09:33PM
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I think if you ask Slack about that they'll happily tell you about Slack Grid.
EDIT: Whoops actually Shared Channels is the feature I was thinking of: https://slackhq.com/introducing-shared-channels-where-you-ca...