Ask HN: Who Still Uses Slack?

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by kypro • 4 years ago

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When Microsoft released Teams a few years back many people seem to believe Slack's best days were behind them.

Around that time the company I was working for decided to migrate from Slack to Teams simply because it was included with Microsoft 365. The decision wasn't popular, but for cost cutting reasons the migration went ahead anyway.

The company I work for now however uses both Teams and Slack and we have no plans to migrate fully to Teams. We tend to only use teams for scheduled meetings, but otherwise prefer to chat and call each other via Slack.

Personally I much prefer Slack and see Teams as little more than a video conferencing App. From what I can tell most people seem to prefer Slack and few companies have migrated fully to Teams. But perhaps I'm just in a bubble.

Did anyone here migrate from Slack to Teams? And which do you prefer (if either)?

PaulHoule• 4 years ago

My unit at Cornell uses Slack. Back when there was a Slack outage we were told by Cornell central IT that they didn't want us to switch to Teams.

kate-inqoob• 4 years ago

Both platforms are noteworthy and are convenient tools for corporate communication. The solution choice is based on the tasks the business needs to solve in its specific cases. In our work, we have seen companies successfully using both products, customizing them for different departments. We used both solutions, but when Microsoft did a great job improving the Teams functionality, our choice was irrevocably over it. An additional plus is that updates almost every month help make workflows more accessible and efficient.

PLG88• 4 years ago

Personally I do not like Teams. It's ok for calls, but it kills CPU/Ram on my mac. Also, its chat function it far inferior to Slack. Now I use Mattermost as my main tool but use the other 2 sometimes when needed.

NiagaraThistle• 4 years ago

My previous company migrated from Slack to Teams. At first I hated the Idea but after a week or two getting used to Teams, I 100% ditched Slack for it. Really was surprised how much i enjoyed Team over Slack. Maybe it was the integration with the other MS apps my company used, but I really felt MS got it right with Teams and liked it much more than Slack.

zhte415• 4 years ago

Is Slack expensive?

I was chatting with a friend and discovered her office spend $4000/month on office plants. The office has 1500 people. That includes the pots, and replacing them if they're sick or die. But bringing your own plant to work was banned because of the clean desk policy.

Another location in her company installed a 'vertical garden' (a wall, a good sized wall but not huge wall, roughly twice the height of whoever was standing in front of it, with a garden on it, even a mini stream) for over a hundred of thousand dollars.

I don't have a strong preference for Slack or Teams; I preferring email and telephone but either Teams or Slack are more productive than talking to a plant.

Perhaps the expense isn't the product, but worrying about how to use it. OC was often more than enough. And probably still would be.

billybuckwheat• 4 years ago

In my previous job, my team used Teams. It was OK, but after a while it tended to bog down on my desktop; the web version was slightly better. Also, there'd be random disconnections, Teams would kick me out of a meeting just after I joined (a sign, perhaps?), or blips where I'd lose a conversation for a couple of seconds.

We use Slack at my current employer and I haven't run into any of those problems. Plus I like the UI a bit more. Not sure why, but Slack's interface just feels more comfortable to me.

Ask HN: Who Still Uses Slack?

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