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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, @07:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @07:16PM (#536881)

    *snorts* "If you can." Fuck that shit. Sleep is a need of the body. Whether I like it or not, I have a body, and it needs sleep. It's not a nice thing to have, it's not optional, it's a requirement. It's non-negotiable.

    If they want to get one of these people who don't need sleep to do my job, they certainly can. Amazingly, though, people who don't need sleep just don't have nearly the capabilities I bring to the table when I'm fully rested during business hours. Funny that.