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points by drcongo 4 days ago | 0 comments
It says "Connect with your current messaging provider" and then never mentions that ability again. What does that look like?

Personally, I absolutely despise what Slack has become and would love to replace it, but I can't see anything about this app that might persuade me or my coworkers to install it.

edit: Don't mean to sound harsh about what you've built, but that page is not selling the app for you!

[–] ben_d 4 days ago
Thanks for the feedback! We support bidirectional message syncing with selected public channels in your Slack organization. You invite the app to public channels you want to sync and then we have a setup wizard to help you setup your organization in Bema. Can definitely make this more obvious in the marketing copy.
[–] boxed 4 days ago
I don't see how this can work even in theory. The shape of the platform always gets deeply ingrained in the behavior and even semantics of the users using it. Having radically different UIs on top of existing systems that other users might or might not see the same is fraught.
[–] xnorswap 4 days ago
> despise what Slack has become

I'm genuinely struggling to understand how slack is much different now than 5 or more years ago. There's a handful of features that are easy to ignore, but the fundamental experience has barely changed in a decade.

What is it about slack that you despise?

[–] drcongo 4 days ago
Oh, there could be a massive list here, but as tiny exemplar - try zooming in to see something in the corner of an image shared while you're on a video call. You could, before they invented "Huddles", an even shittier version of the video calls feature it had before, but now you can't.

I guess you also haven't been hit yet by the "every message is a new message even if I'm the one that just sent it and it's right there on screen in the channel I still have open because I sent it" bug yet. When you do, I'm afraid the only fix is to individually sign out of every Slack you're in, delete the app, delete every file it's ever created in ~/Library/, reinstall the app, re-sign-in to every Slack again.

[–] sgarland 4 days ago
Same. It’s perhaps a little more bloated, but it’s nothing like what Discord has become, as a counter.