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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: 4, Funny) by Geezer on Sunday July 09 2017, @10:31AM (1 child)
Glad I read TFS; for a minute there I thought that maybe Sub-Genii had become a targeted minority group, or worse yet, the Systemd Gods are thundering against Pat Volkerding again.
I've been running Slackware pretty much since the Earth's crust cooled, so I'm greatly relieved that TFA refers to yet another vapid social platform and not my beloved "Bob" Dobbs-approved OS.
It's Sunday. Time to find some slack.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @01:25AM
Thundering? I thought that was gas.