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- mg330
We were using it at work and it was fun, but they realized we were spending too much on it, so it's gone. We might be building an internal replacement for it. For those of us in our creative and UX groups, we had a great time sharing stuff and having discussions. We have 5 offices across the company, and post-merger with another agency it allowed everyone to get to know each other through channels about common interests - tech, beer, food, music, personal projects, etc. I was bummed when they pulled it.
- Aye, I can see it just being like IM within an office = Bad timesuck. For teams spread all over the place though, quite useful.detritus
- detritus0
Fuck, I realise how little I've used this now - i used it on a project a year or so ago and opened up a few basic channels and that's all we've needed.
Current one's a little more involving and... you can't create channels with upper case letters or 'special' characters?
What is this retardry?
- fooler0
We use slack to communicate to coworkers that sit within talking distance so no one has to take off their headphones and have a conversation. The communication is 95% funny gifs, memes and onion articles the other 5% is work related.
- studderine0
Get back to work and stop Slacking.
- pockets0
qbn slack channel ?
- oey0
Is this any good? Like seriously?
I also need a collab tool...
- kona0
We use it a lot here. The corp sets up the channels as a way to monitor things but that's about it. I'd say it's our primary tool for group communication. That and pigeons.
The only issue we had came up last week actually. The channels remain open and anyone in the channel can go back in time to read the conversations that took place. Last week just before a major launch we added a number of new employees to the channel to help group talk and QA the deployment. Unfortunately, major shade was being thrown earlier in the conversation history which was unfortunate.
It seems everyone took exception to me calling them little bitches.
No just kidding. A few of the developers were throwing leadership under the bus and a key stakeholder from leadership was added to the channel. Oops.
- thanks for the input kona!oey
- Those devs are dumb, stakeholders can look at every channel, nothing is safe.Frosty_spl
- Muncher0
I'm usually hyper cynical about all these bullshit "simplify/streamline your processes/comms/life" things that pop up. At my last job it was almost a monthly occurrence that somebody would say "Oh hey we should use Evernote/penisbollicks/poopoonan... for this project. I've set up a channel/feed/squeeb/snorg for the project and sent you all invites" and at that point I would leap on the person suggesting it and tell them to fuck off loudly and violently until they were clearly subdued... Because that shit is always a waste of time, adds complications about downloading shit, signing up for the stupid shit on laptops and phones and computers and shit, remembering fucking passwords for shit, incompatibility with other shit, and that's ignoring the fact that these things don't ever simplify because they just add another fucking set of channels that have to be monitored and co-ordinated.
So when I got to my recent freelance gig and they said "we use Slack here" I faced something of a dilemma, because freelancing isn't great for shouting fuck off violently. I had heard all about Slack, and assumed it was just another bullshit complicator masquerading as a simplifier, but I'd never used it before.
I discovered though, that they use Slack instead of email. Nobody uses the company email at all internally, and each project has it's own space on Slack, so you only see the stuff relevant to what you're doing, and you know emails are external only.
So it does actually really work. It does simplify things a lot. It's hardly a revolutionary design innovation though. It's pretty much just a forum template that you can join. But I like it, and really I'm the very last ever person who ever likes stuff like that.
I recommend Slack.
But stop using email.
- darkslateblue-2
why not just use skype.
- More feature than just communication.pango
- LOLSocialJusticeWarrior
- hotroddy0
Can you answer to text like Mac Messenger? I'm looking for an desktop app like Messenger that send txts. Problem with it is that it's only iMessages and can't send to android.
- oey0
I already told here I live with a UNIX Programmer.
Today I told him about the intern communication in the house could be done with a program like Slack.His mood changed a bit for the moment and he said something like he doesn't want to have anything to do with hipster shit...LOL!
Then we talked a bit and he said that's the hottest shit right now and he's just not the target group.
Which is true.
Anyway, I stumbled upon this today:
- i've been using dropmark for about a year now. i find it usefulGnash
- oey0
Anyone?
- set-1
I like it. Yet another platform on which to call people cunts.
- PonyBoy1
Used it a few years now... it's great for keeping track of huge projects / multiple teams / multiple clients etc... I have 5 'current' channels all in use at the moment (about 15-20 not in use / inactive).
I work w/an event company where we throw the same event in about 12 different cities around the country each year. We have a channel for each city that's only active for the 2-3 months leading up to the event. Every file / conversation (that isn't over the phone) is archived in Slack in union w/Smartsheets... rarely anything is sent via email for these events. It's nice having every piece of content / art / video easily findable / accessible in one app.
- mort_0
"like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda." — Jason Fried
- mort_1
Just learning about this alternative that apparently doesn't make you a slave to it.
- dbloc1
It's great to send co-workers memes and stupid links
- bulletfactory2
Yep, we have tons of channels for work and different projects used by team members interested/focused on those projects, a few general channels for work related announcements, and 1 that everyone uses for epic shitposting.