Re:Is Slack Really Worth $2.8B? A Conversation with Stewart ...
by vacri on Friday April 17, 2015 @12:17AM
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Jira/Confluence UI is not even vaguely Hipchat UI. And yes, Confluence is appallingly slow. I find it weird that you mention these as a rebuttal, since a) they're not chat, and b) the only mention I made of either of them is how Slack presents one of them. Hell, I didn't even mention any other chat products, not even IRC, just 'chat' as a general term.
Our team are also longterm IRC users (I get mocked for only being in half-a-dozen channels) and our Slack experiment lasted only one afternoon before everyone abandoned it. The only dev who was really fighting for Slack was wanting to use their IRC integration and bypass the UI completely.
So I'd obviously refute your assertion that savvy users dislike Slack and unsophisticated users like Slack.
Refute away, because that's not what I said. Your entire rebuttal to what I said has been a strawman, apart from 'we disagree'. I gave you some very concrete examples of my problems with the Slack interface, and you give me a vague dismissal about entirely different products.
Our team are also longterm IRC users (I get mocked for only being in half-a-dozen channels) and our Slack experiment lasted only one afternoon before everyone abandoned it. The only dev who was really fighting for Slack was wanting to use their IRC integration and bypass the UI completely.
So I'd obviously refute your assertion that savvy users dislike Slack and unsophisticated users like Slack.
Refute away, because that's not what I said. Your entire rebuttal to what I said has been a strawman, apart from 'we disagree'. I gave you some very concrete examples of my problems with the Slack interface, and you give me a vague dismissal about entirely different products.