Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public

Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by jen20 on Monday February 04, 2019 @05:27PM (#19081265)

Which of course misses the point of why people use Slack over IRC: history without screwing about. I could make do without the emojis, GIFs, video or other content rendering if IRC had history without the need for a constant connection.

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Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by yzmtf2008 on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:12PM (#19081629)

>Which of course misses the point of why people use Slack over IRC: history without screwing about.

It's why you use Slack, rather than why people use Slack. I'm sure you could make do without the emojis, GIFs, and videos, but the market says people seem to think otherwise.

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Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by therein on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:01PM (#19082519)

To be fair, why he uses Slack is likely due to his employer using Slack.

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Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by quickthrower2 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:26AM (#19083741)

And the reason his employer uses it is to ensure everyone can interrupt everyone and give each other more work.

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Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by lmm on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:05AM (#19085342)

Is there a competitor that doesn't have the emojis/gifs/videos? They're easy enough that everyone adds them, so I don't think we can conclude "the market" has made a clear choice.

(Ok, I remember HipChat didn't have gifs but there was a lot else wrong with HipChat)

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Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by curiousDog on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:09PM (#19082958)

Those who think Slack is just IRC are the same ones who have been predicting the year of the Linux desktop

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Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by kinkrtyavimoodh on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:08AM (#19083142)

And who think Dropbox is just rsync + crontab.

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Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by lugg on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:14PM (#19089889)

Yea except I'm neither of these people but good job on the strawman arguments.

Slack is nicer than IRC to use. Nobody here is debating that. Slack solves a heap of problems with IRC.

My only point of contention is that there is zero argument for it using the resources it does. None of the mentioned solutions require any more resources than IRC consumes.

We just have a big heaping pile of electron nobody wants to acknowledge as the source of the problem.

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Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by smileysteve on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:18PM (#19082795)

I skipped this because the history and search are perceivably done server side

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