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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @05:08PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @05:08PM (#536852)

    The sad thing is some people need to be reminded to get enough sleep. Dont be a dick. etc... Yes we are adults but not everyone acts like one.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @07:30PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @07:30PM (#536886)

    Yes but having some smart ass IM program preaching that shit to you against your will can be irritating. The tone of many of the slogans is written as if the author cares about the reader as an individual. In a commerical IM product that is aimed primarily at the business world, who primarly focus on maximizing profit and screwing the maximum possible productivity from their employees, that caring tone appears very superficial, even patronizing or insulting to an intelligent critical thinker.

    The comment about getting enough sleep "if you can" is probably particularly upsetting to some overworked employees who are suffering sleep deprivation against their own will due to the unreasonable demands of their employer. Of course I'm sure the employer would be glad if the employee sacrificed time spent on their family or recreation to get more sleep so that they could be a more efficient worker drone on Monday morning.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @02:20AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @02:20AM (#537006)

      I'm just curious, are you one to throw around the insults sjw or snowflake?

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @01:24PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @01:24PM (#537103)

        Fuck no! I just hate people screwing with other people's lives in negative ways. Calling somebody a "snowflake" comes under that. Social justice is a good thing if it's implemented so that only the people who want support get it. Support isn't something that should be forced upon all adults in normal circumstances (with the exception of maybe UBI) and more to the point I don't see a business tool as being responsible for someone's psychological support. Do you get it yet? Haven't you ever worked in a shitty environment where the employees aren't respected yet bolt on, superficial platitudes straight out of the business handbook are used as a stand in for actually caring about people?

        It's not Slack's job to make an employee feel better or worse. It's a fucking IM platform. They don't know their users personally. Managers do know their employees personally. They're the ones that should be creating a positive environment.

        Honestly the pricks on here that rant on about SJWs, snowflakes, millennials, ethnic groups, genders, etc, etc, et fucking cetera, and the trolls that bait them are just getting so fucking old. I don't know what it is about this site that attracts that shit. What the fuck has all that bullcrap got to do with "Fuck Beta"?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @04:55PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @04:55PM (#537172)

          They couldn't be bothered to make a "show tips on startup" tickbox?