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Yeah, and a Rolls Royce is little more than a Honda with worse miles per gallon.
by somethingnot 7y ago
Yeah, and a Rolls Royce is little more than a Honda with worse miles per gallon.
- msbarnett 7y agoExcept in this metaphor, in terms of features, performance, and sheer quality of experience, a Rolls Royce would be something like LimeChat, and Slack is a Ford Pinto
- somethingnot 7y agoTruly spoken as a programmer, whose ultimate chat experience is text in a terminal. Why would anyone want GIFs or images in their chat app? Crazy people...
- msbarnett 7y agoTruly spoken like someone who isn’t aware that most IRC clients, including LimeChat, will happily display images, including gifs, but for some reason feels confident and qualified enough in their uninformed opinion to be belligerent about it on the internet.
- somethingnot 7y agoFunny how a google images search for limechat fails to find a single screenshot with inline images. But I'll take your word for it. I guess that settles it. People will dump Slack and Discord on mass and move to the amazing IRC clients like LimeChat which are so much more efficient. it's well known that the number one thing people look at when choosing software is how efficient they are. Nobody cares about looks or features, just about CPU cycles.
- msbarnett 7y agoIf people cared about looks or features, Slack certainly wouldn’t come out on top. No, what people care about are primarily network effects. They'll use whatever someone in the company decided to use (frequently Slack because it’s always been Slack since someone back in 2013 decided it was the hip choice, before it even had a desktop client), and they’ll put up with whatever dogshit client they’re served, because it’s out of their hands.
- somethingnot 7y agoIn the last two companies I worked in it was us low level employees which were begging IT for Slack, until they reluctantly accepted (because of costs and of fears about hosting confidential chats on 3rd parties). Nobody was begging for LimeChat or IRC. And what about Discord? It's almost exclusively used by people in their homes, there is no company pushing it down their throats.
- snazz 7y agoThere are network effects outside of companies "pushing [software] down [employees'] throats." Consider, for instance, that large groups of gamers already use Discord?
- ymolodtsov 7y agoSlack has great features and awesome integrations with almost anything you can think of. This is its value and this is why people like it.
- pjmlp 7y agoSome of us would love to do it, but job and customers aren't there.
- CameronNemo 7y agoYou say this like I should prefer a Rolls Royce to a Honda.
- redwall_hp 7y agoYeah, I'd take a Civic Type R over any other contemporary car.