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posted by martyb on Sunday July 09 2017, @05:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the slack-off dept.

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


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by TheRaven on Sunday July 09 2017, @12:07PM (3 children)

    by TheRaven (270) on Sunday July 09 2017, @12:07PM (#536802) Journal
    In a PHB world, being proprietary might not be a showstopper, but having no control over where your employees' communications go is. Slack stores your proprietary and sensitive data on their servers and is unable to make any guarantees about where it ends up. That's a showstopper for any business that wouldn't be comfortable using a public IRC channel for their internal communications.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @08:19PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @08:19PM (#536914)

    Counterexample: The Cloud.

    "We're going to put all our servers in The Cloud!"

    "Uh, there are regulations about customer data and payment data and stuff..."

    "Cloud, bitches! Now!"

    "Fuuuuck ..."

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @07:57AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @07:57AM (#537053)

      That's when you remind them that cloud is a buzz-word, and the technical term is "someone elses server".

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday July 10 2017, @06:24AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Monday July 10 2017, @06:24AM (#537045) Journal

    That's a showstopper for any business that wouldn't be comfortable using a public IRC channel for their internal communications.

    You mean those same businesses that let Google handle their email?

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