Threads must have had very little meaningful usage from customers to be able to shut down and delete all data within 2 weeks of the announcement with hardly a mention of how this might impact their userbase
> According to their Twitter posts, they have been working directly with their heavier users for a while longer to get them migrated off.
Props to them, but this is why I have a dislike for cloud software. Companies wouldn't even need to do that in the first place, if they had just used self-hosted Mattermost or Rocket.Chat, or something else, since those are usually good enough for like 80% to 90% of the use cases anyways. Possibly with some other software thrown in the mix as well, like OpenProject.
Heavy its a huge pain to set that up and maintain it though. Rocket chat, last time I checked required building your own android app and pushing it to the store.
No need to build your own android app for rocket.chat. They have their own apps that work well with your own self-hosted instances out of the box.
Mattermost previously had some weird thing in regards to your own app for native app notifications, but haven't seen the issue in the most recent versions.
In a perfect world... Unfortunately with each update of Rocket.chat and Mattermost they've begun to limit or cripple the self-hosted, open-source, non-paid versions.
At some point the community will likely need to create on-going forks to maintain the nice features we take for granted today. For example, I'm working on alternative Mattermost SSO compatible out of the box with the latest open-source version. Mattermost self-hosted, with an alternative (non-paid per user) SSO is good for 99% of use cases, but then again, they'll start to see that and cripple away bit by bit.
I've recently heard good things about Campfire Once, may ultimately be better option compared to rundle everywhere.
Though Mattermost really is nice... sigh.. can't have nice things.
Genuine question - what makes it "more async"? From what I can gather, it has no notification dots or "online" status. Is there also something inherent to the conversation structure that makes it "more async"?
I remember using it at a startup around 2017-18. At the time, I thought it was just another tool they were experimenting with. But after moving on to another job, I found myself missing it.
I doubt there's a play. Shopify is just hiring a team of smart developers who have a track record of working well with each other, without needing to go through a long recruiting process.
LLM-based support chat probably. It's a pretty ripe opportunity to build something analogous to Amazon's support experience, especially when combined with Shop Pay. Putting payment provider, retailers, potentially suppliers, customers and documentation into a single conversational interface will be quite convenient for the end user.
These acquihire posts read so cheery. Why? You’re killing a product that at least 1 person depended on. Why are you pretending that this is exciting for them?
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Sell threads.com to Meta
> A Slack replacement, not a social app from Instagram
It's Taus all the way down!
I found this: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/15/threads-a-slack-alternativ...
https://youtu.be/_gKXA4kMLJY?si=yEFNlD385T1Xw5FG
Props to them, but this is why I have a dislike for cloud software. Companies wouldn't even need to do that in the first place, if they had just used self-hosted Mattermost or Rocket.Chat, or something else, since those are usually good enough for like 80% to 90% of the use cases anyways. Possibly with some other software thrown in the mix as well, like OpenProject.
Mattermost previously had some weird thing in regards to your own app for native app notifications, but haven't seen the issue in the most recent versions.
At some point the community will likely need to create on-going forks to maintain the nice features we take for granted today. For example, I'm working on alternative Mattermost SSO compatible out of the box with the latest open-source version. Mattermost self-hosted, with an alternative (non-paid per user) SSO is good for 99% of use cases, but then again, they'll start to see that and cripple away bit by bit.
I've recently heard good things about Campfire Once, may ultimately be better option compared to rundle everywhere.
Though Mattermost really is nice... sigh.. can't have nice things.
Edit, I'm remembering wrong, it was 8.5m.
"The farm bureau has agreed to give us FB.com and we in return have agreed to not sell Farm subsidies."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-pays-85-million-for-fb...
We (Doist) have been developing it since 2015.
It’s so underrated. More should check it out.
Note: I’m not affiliated in any way.
Use the talent to build chat functionality, so that merchants can add that as a feature to their website?
It seems like they have also given up?
I guess emails and excel are really enough for most.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38072495