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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @01:06AM (2 children)
There are 5 supported browsers, granted two of them are exclusive to Windows, and one only available on Mac, but even so if you do use Linux, Chrome and Firefox support should be sufficient, and if you prefer Chromium, just change the user-agent to match Chrome.
Even if you prefer to use a different browser, you could make an exception and use Firefox purely for Slack, would have saved you the effort of setting up an untrusted system to run their app on.
With Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and Edge, they are covering all the major browsers, is it reasonable to expect them to support every single browser available? If not where is a reasonable cutoff line?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @06:27AM
Wild guess: doesn't work in lynx.
Slack.com can go fuck themselves. Sideways. With a splintered axe handle.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Monday July 10 2017, @06:30AM
That's the point of standards: You don't support a browser, you support a standard. And then any browser that implements the standard is automatically supported. And if a browser doesn't work, it's then the browser's fault for not supporting the standard.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.