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Benjamin Pollack has blogged about why he hates the proprietary chat tool, Slack, which competes with IRC. He covers six points as to why you should too:
"Yeah, that’s right: there’s finally something I feel so negatively about that I’m unsatisfied hating it all by myself; I want you to hate it, too. So let’s talk about why Slack is destroying your life, piece by piece, and why you should get rid of it immediately before its trail of destruction widens any further—in other words, while you still have time to stop the deluge of mindless addiction that it’s already staple-gunned to your life."
[Ed. addition] I had troubles accessing the site, even wget failed to download anything... but lynx.exe on Windows 7 Pro worked on the first try!?! For the curious, here are the six points from the blog post alluded to above:
1. It encourages use for both time-sensitive and time-insensitive communication
2. It cannot be sanely ignored
3. It cannot be sanely organized
4. It's proprietary and encourages lock-in
5. Its version of Markdown is just broken
6. It encourages use for both business and personal applications
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday July 09 2017, @06:43AM (2 children)
I think I've finally seen the truest, clearest expression of why the Internet will eternally enable, drive, and support the distribution of crackpot rants. I don't think anything in this article regarding Slack in particular could be more valuable to me than this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @12:51AM (1 child)
Lol, you're displaying the same symptoms bud!
Posting on the internet about the one true thing and all you needed to know was what again? Please tell us your valuable insight over the intertuubes
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday July 10 2017, @01:47AM
Sorry, just saying I can't improve on quoting this line verbatim (with attribution, of course).