Long time hipchat user here (both DC and Cloud), the rollout of Stride rubbed me all kinds of wrong ways. They 'replaced' HipChat w/ Strie but didn't keep many of the same features/integrations and then FORCED you to switch by a deadline. I get upgrades and progress, but how about rolling upgrade, swap out the client, move everyone over automatically and not pain your users? For my team, we said screw it and 'migrated' to Slack. Give us a chance to switch, we switched.
Haven't used Stride yet but as someone who hates always-on chat I could see myself really appreciating its deep work oriented features: mute notifications, allow others in the channel to mark things as "task", "decision", "outcome" so you can go back and find important things you missed while deep working.<p><a href="https://www.stride.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.stride.com</a>
Sad thing is there isn’t even baseline feature parity. Not sure what’s going to happen when they give my org a date to move by. Without some of the more enterprisey features, we can’t move to Stride.<p>Oh and the FU on all of our existing integration use is cute.<p>They should have released it as a UI improvement for HipChat, not a whole new ecosystem.
biggest gripe with Atlassian is all their products are slow as hell. Hipchat was sluggish and buggy but at least they were steadily improving. Now everyone has to start over on a new platform (?) Confluence, how freakin long does it take to return a static info page, Seconds? As if visiting the HR subdomain wasn't painful enough already. Heaven forbid you click on something makes a POST request in JIRA, RIP developer.
Stride's WYSIWG editor is really unpleasant (and had several showstopping bugs which they're only just ironing out).<p>I have an open ticket to have a profile option to disable it, but ...crickets.
Michael Tiemann used to say that he wasn't interested in trying to pitch to a company unless he thought his product (Red Hat Linux) was four times better than what they currently had: the costs and risks of a switch can easily negate the value of changing to a product that is only somewhat better than the incumbent. Unless Stride does <i>something</i> massively better than Slack, I don't see how Stride can compete.
I didn't find any reference to encryption or security matters on Stride, anyone?<p>I want to believe that keybase will be soon mature enough to compete against Slack and other similar services...
I don't know what it is about Atlassian's branding but it always feels uncomfortably corporate to use any of their software. I'm worried that if I start using Atlassian software I'm going to have to buy inexpensive business-casual clothes, commute an hour and 15 minutes both ways, make small talk with Janet from accounting by the coffee machine while my mocha latte brews, and get Greg my middle-manager my self-assessment by EOD.
Hipchat 2017 works perfectly fine for a chat app (which @tootie said have been basically the same for 30 years).<p>We have not been forced to migrate to Stride yet, but I am bummed about this can I keep kicking down the road.<p>I don't care how much better Stride is, Hipchat is good enough for us.
I don't understand the point of all these stupid chat apps... Discord, Slack ect...<p>If you need real time there is IRC. Otherwise, just setup a mailing list.
everybody here seems to be griping about it, but from the overview on their website it seems like a reasonable alternative to slack, and the free tier includes group video chat and screen sharing. that sounds pretty sweet to me.
it's safe to say this won't be killing slack in any meaningful way. wow, that's a terribly atlassian UI they plopped on there. no offense to the dev team(s), i'm sure they had no say in making it so cluttered. slack wins because they make focus on communication not mandatory UI components that have no place in a chat app.