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Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by NegativeK on Thursday February 09, 2023 @01:42PM (#34728968)
I honestly don't understand the passionate opinions about chat/conference software. They're all doing the same thing in roughly the same way, and I don't have a computer that's ancient enough to really notice resource hogging.
Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by Sebb767 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @01:57PM (#34729234)
> and I don't have a computer that's ancient enough to really notice resource hogging.

Most likely you don't use a conference software bad enough.

That being said, having useful search, a quick UI and actual availability shown is massively helpful. A great comms tool also makes inter-department chats easy and fun (for example via #random). Lastly, the amount of time wasted with "can you see my screen?"/"can you hear me?"/"Doesn't work for me, I'll restart <software>" varies vastly between tools. Having communication, including discovery and screen sharing, just work makes things so much easier.

Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by NegativeK on Thursday February 09, 2023 @07:57PM (#34734146)
> Most likely you don't use a conference software bad enough.

Fair; I could definitely believe that.

But among Zoom, Teams, Discord, and Slack (there's probably another one thrown in there,) I haven't had issues that really stand out to me. I've seen social workplace issues that made comms suck, but they transferred between chat apps.