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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @02:51AM (1 child)
A random nothing nobody like 99.999% of the internet that post their vapid ramblings in hope of 15sec of e-fame. HOWEVER!
2. It cannot be sanely ignored
2. It cannot be sanely ignored
2. It cannot be sanely ignored
I was forced to used this excrement-ware at my last job, all the *non* developers loved it. They could post all their dumb cookie cutter cat gifs and link to their asinine comedy-news political dogshit in the #randon channel, which they did all day long. If anything it stood as a shining example of how little work they did.
But with slack (at least when I last used it months ago) you cannot customize the notifications IN ANY MEANINGFUL MANNER WHATSOEVER. Go buy an egg timer, set it to go off randomly every 5-10min if you can, do it the entire day your trying to work and discover exactly how annoying slack is.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday July 10 2017, @06:27AM
You mean they were slacking? :-)
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