Slack abandons screen-control during sharing, recommends Zoom

Re:Slack abandons screen-control during sharing, recommends ... by dfabulich on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:47AM (#20002734)

They sent an email about this to Slack admins this morning, with a section "Why the change" that doesn't answer the question at all.

> Why the change:

> • We will be rolling out a new, faster version of calls in early July.

> • To enable this improved experience, we are removing the ability to share remote control of your screen during a Slack Call.

How does removing this feature enable an improved experience?

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Re:Slack abandons screen-control during sharing, recommends ... by bglusman on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:39PM (#20003233)

With no personal knowledge here my guess is that's just marketing speak, and the real reason it was removed is... well... Slack is an enterprise product and a lot of enterprises don't want or need this, and the idea of a vector for remote control even being possible just blocks a lot of sales and complicates security audits in BigCo. I'm sure they offered a way to disable it but the feature was still in there so... just my guess though.

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Re:Slack abandons screen-control during sharing, recommends ... by dfabulich on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:09PM (#20004859)

Nah, Zoom is an enterprise product, and they have this feature. (Slack is referring people who want remote control functionality to use Zoom.)

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