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- orrinward20
We depend on it in our dev team, and non-devs are really enjoying using it too.
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We used to use HipChat until Slack just blitzed it with the amount of useful integrations it has.
Our application is a Ruby on Rails app, and with Slack we can:
- Push to our test branch via a bot
- See if our CI Builds pass or fail (message pops up)
- See and disuss Github Pull Requests/comments
- See when new things are added to our Trello boards
- Search full chat history including deep-file searchFor my dev team, it has replaced email. Combined with Trello I've not received an email or sent an email to my fellow devs in a year.
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Where Slack, or any IRC client really, comes into it's own vs email is around project work. A project can't really be grouped in email unless you set up filters or tag the emails in some way and search by that tag.
In A group chat client like Slack/HipChat you just fire up a #new-homepage channel and then have any discussion around the "New Homepage" project there. It makes it transparent to the organisation and easy to find.
I'm a megafan of transparency across an organisation and email by it's nature is private and counters that.
Where Slack stands out from competitors like HipChat is that is is marketed as non-nerdy, and I've been really impressed with how quickly my non-technical team have picked it up and had it become essential in their day-to-day.
- most informative. any more insights in to workflow and usage of slack?2002
- Trello handles all our workflow and Slack supports at every stage. I work with remote devs and it gives instant access to what people are working on...orrinward2
- ...or discussing at any point. It eliminates the need to for checking in in other ways. Project channels also reduces the need to proactively report to...orrinward2
- ...outside parties.orrinward2
- now i see the value. i wish i could see the workflow first hand.2002
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plus i just love the /giphy integrationbliznutty