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Slack. We've gone from terminal IRC clients running on practically no memory, to shipping entire Chrome/Electron installations that allow you to conveniently lo
by evocatus 4y ago
Slack. We've gone from terminal IRC clients running on practically no memory, to shipping entire Chrome/Electron installations that allow you to conveniently log in with a button that opens your real Chrome browser, so that you can go back to Electron and accomplish the exact same things IRC did, except with slower load times, frequent service outages, eternally shifting UIs and redesigns, memory footprints that stretch even a 16GB system, and creative reinterpretations of the input field widget.
Oh. And emoji.
Too bad systems for globally coordinating the development of software never existed in the past. I wonder where we would be without Slack.
- markus_zhang 4y agoWait until you start using Teams...
- 6stringmerc 4y agoAtlassian would like a word with you about bloat and garbage functionality supremacy.
- markus_zhang 4y agoYeah been there and being there too. I'm kinda used to confluence finally because nothing else beats it yet.
- 6stringmerc 4y agoWhere would we be? Still slapping each other with large trout.
- mindcrime 4y ago/me larts @6stringmerc with a very large trout.
- cylon13 4y agoI agree with the sentiment about Slack being slow and bad. It’s not exactly the same as IRC though. There’s voice chat, screensharing, I can drag and drop video files without worrying about hosting, etc. People choose Slack over IRC for a reason, it’s just too bad it’s a private centralized thing written as a resource hogging electron behemoth.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago> People choose Slack over IRC for a reason because they don't know tech.
- pc86 4y agoPlenty of people who "know tech" chose Slack. Don't give them a pass.