Just got this slack from our server admin.

Slack: "People can't work when we're down"

GitHub: "Hold my beer"

Slack update notes are by far the funniest out there.

When you are so lazy to make a dark theme so you just add warning.

Current mood:

- Referred to manager as "Mein fuhrer" to a colleague in slack.
- Reading an email from a recruiter.

Welcome to JavaScript where
Number.isInteger(0.9999999999999999) is false and
Number.isInteger(0.99999999999999999) is true

These slack socks are nice, but devRant ones would be nicer

I love the Slack changelogs 😂

Whenever the PM is pushing us to work "extra hard" on projects I usually drop this in the company slack channel 😁

Slack isn't down. You've been fired.

Shout out to devs who put comments in your code I'm so done with my team rn

Also we have slack for a reason stop texting me to update everyone on changes...

at least not public void I guess..

I instinctively press Ctrl+S everywhere I write text, even in chat like Slack or Skype. Do I need help? :/

Let's hope Slack releases this dark theme soon.

Someone posted this in my work slack

Sending files on WhatsApp inspite of having a slack workspace and git 😑😑😑😑😑

"I'd rather post my nude pictures in slack than this unfinished feature branch... I would just feel a bit *too* naked"

— coworker

Someone at Microsoft has a sense of humour I see...

In my hunt for the perfect productivity app I came upon something called Freeter.

It is a productivity app that lets me gather what I need for the work I'm working on, and then manage it all in one place.

For me, It's super nice to be able to check tasks in Trello, or communicating in Slack without having to change tabs or open a new browser.

Try it out and tell me what you think

sorry linux <3

D E F R A G M E N T I O N

"You can't run Slack, Premiere, After Effects AND Photoshop at the same time with only 8 GB RAM!"
Me:

Work in a company where Github, StackOverflow, Slack is Blocked by a Firewall and Develop code which they think are futuristic but of Stone age :-(

1969:
-what're you doing with that 2KB of RAM?
-sending people to the moon

2017:
-what're you doing with that 1.5GB of RAM?
-running Slack

Did you know that you could only add 23 smileys to a message in Slack? 🤔 Well now you know! 😁

Walking up to my computer, on autopilot i typed my password to unlock it, pressed enter ...aaand realised it was unlocked and I just sent my password in the clients general slack channel.
Quickly changed it to a smiley and pretended it was raining..

Any one else who mistakenly typed a password or other secrets in a slack channel or similar? XD

When the company uses slack, why the project lead want to create a WhatsApp group ??!!?

Trying to convince my coworker to have a git repo instead of resending chunks of code in Slack... lmao

My face when I typed my bash commands into slack for the 8th time today

We use emojis to maintain pull request status in a Slack channel

I'm what's known as a full slack developer, kind of like a full stack developer but lazier and with zero motivation.

Interest matching system...

Just like slack but openly recommending a group to people who have similar thought

Aka, Grouping people by similar thought

I work for a company that is 100% remote. Slack just went down. We're doomed, on Halloween of all days.

Slack channel message this morning:

Just in case you were wondering...

Gotta love witty changelogs

Colleague started a slack channel for our team, management wanted nothing to do with it. We used it to work and have a bit of fun.

Some push / drive came form somewhere and now all the managers are on it. Yesterday I was told my screenshot and "snarky comment" are not appropriate for the workplace and to delete my slack message.

My comment was a joke about about a new app the company has to use "to increase efficiency" that broke and wouldn't let me do what I needed. It wasn't offensive, demeaning, sexist to anyone or even contain any bad language.

How petty and childish to be monitoring a private channel making sure everything is positive. We all joked that from now on our meme's must be about how awesome the company is and how much time we are saving on a daily basis.

God forbid we're allowed to speak honestly and openly or have a bit of fun.

!rant

Really happy about this one! I cannot go into details yet but hopefully will write a blogpost about it when I may disclose it :)

Me on Slack:

I was looking for the `busy` status here in slack but there's only `active` and `away`. That's when I realized why this app was called `Slack` in the first place. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why is this website using the slack loading indicator!??

If slack is down for more than 15 minutes you're legally allowed to leave work

Slack: A tool for teams to collaborate and work efficiently

Instead

Slack: A way to share memes at work

Advice... Don't open slack at work 😂

Not an office prank, but when I was in high school we had some public computers and I switched some shortcuts for chrome and internet explorer, so when you clicked chrome, something that should not be called a browser would open.
And than I got the brilliant idea: I wrote a script camuflagged as a chrome icon that would launch 100 internet explorers. Legend says that people are still raging to this day.

The single most productive thing I've done today was teaching my colleague how to send GIFs over Slack...

why is it so hard to convince people to start using slack chat and giving up sending internal emails?

Aaaand I just tried to close Slack with :q

Anybody using Slack seen the short description under your profile?

We have a group slack chat for my class which was intended to be a space for asking questions about assignments and getting help from your peers. Instead it has become a dick measuring contest in there where guys who know very little can act all high and mighty about their (plain wrong, in some instances) facts they're distributing without care. It pisses me off so much seeing how toxic it has become in there. It's the same 5 guys using it to bully each other and God forbid anyone else asks a question, they'll be mocked for not being confident handing in a solution they aren't sure is right. Why can't people treat each other with respect? We're in school to LEARN. Not impress other students with how much (read: little) we know. GJ, guys. You created a smaller version of stack overflow.

*Copies url from bitbucket*
*Switch to Slack on macOS*
*Presses command + v*
Slack: whaaaaaaaaaat :O I'm gonna freeze for few moments to understand what the fuck you just asked me to do

meanwhile in Kotlin slack chat! awesome news

"How My Startup Failed Because My Developers Spent All Day Using Giphy Reactions On Slack" - An honest Medium post no-one has written.

!myContent

Saw this posted on one of my slack channels and made me laugh.

Guess what

So my teammate posted on our Slack channel:

^(?=.{1,254}$)(?=.{1,64}@)[-!#$%&‘*+\/0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+(\.[-!#$%&'*+\/0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+)*@[A-Za-z0-9]([A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])?(\.[A-Za-z0-9]([A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])?)*$

Then our manager asked him: "Are you swearing on Slack!?"

No sir, thats Regex.

When you have snacks on your slack.

Finally got my avatar. Setting it as my profile pic for Github, slack, Jira.

Thanks @dfox

Why is there no dark theme for Slack?

Ok, I am fucking finally pissed off...

My current company, I worked for last 1.5 years, for project management they use slack.

Every Monday we have meeting, and we go over every project and talk what must be done. Every project has it’s own channel with some stupid random code name which is impossible to remember because there is hundreds of other projects with similar name.

If there is something todo for dev he just gets mentioned in in channel.

No to-do’s, so basically u have no idea what u need to do, there’s no way to follow progress. Well, of course u can go over each channel and check if u need to do sth, but it takes fucking time. Also because of that u need keep your boss informed all the time about the progress. In others words it’s messy.

To make it worse, there’s usually a few different channels for the same project (1 for devs, 1 for designers, and others for something else like ux or videos).

I brought up this concern to boss many times, and every dev agreed. So for like a month we tried to use flow app, but still everyone used slack + designers told that they don’t like it. So after trial they said we are going to keep using slack. What the fuck?

Now I don’t actually mind their decision, but there one thing that I can’t stand about current method - slack is free, so all history and files gets deleted as time goes. I can’t even count how much times I needed to re-do some work just because slack deleted some files I had put there for later. Or lost some important information about project, that we needed to discuss over and over every month...

3 fucking more weeks left in this stupid company then I quit.

OMG. I accidentally click into my own name on the Slack DM list, and what wonderful resource did I just find? HOW LONG have I been ignoRANT of this wonderful repo for my fave .gif contributions to project channels???!?!?!?

EffuseJS, An opensource Chat Platform better than Slack, Rocket.Chat.

A normal day in slack.

So my company finally decided to make the shift from using irc for internal chats to Slack.

After a month of patiently waiting for my team to make the shift, I went ahead asked one of my (young) fellow teammate why he hasn't shifted to Slack yet. His reply:
"What's Slack?"

Time for another update on our slack bot, this time i am armed with a demo...

This one time, I turned off Slack, and actually got some work done.

UGH the Slack dark theme hack broke with the newest version of Slack. apparently the Slack devs have had a dark theme "on the to-do list" for over 2 years. COME THE FUCK ON SLACK, ITS A CSS FILE.

Case dismissed 😂

I've been training a client for a few months now to not use Slack for sharing passwords and other secure materials.

I really thought I had made great progress. I even had him using a password manager. Then out of nowhere he sends the wildcard SSL key pair to me and a handful of other devs in a Slack thread.

At least we aren't storing important information like medical records. Oh wait, that's exactly what we're doing.

Anybody uses Slack at work
My whole company freaked out today because Slack servers were down
It was hilarious 😂

Now you have an app for talking to yourself too !!! Thanks Slack

The Slack API is as pleasant as crabs from a street hooker

When someone comes to your desk and asks "did you get my slack message".... Which they sent 23 seconds ago 😒

*team worried about Slack conversations being tracked in the company*
Solution: Shared text file over network. Edit and save it for private communication. Best idea ever?

That's what i call "perfect timing"

haha you had me there for a moment, slack ;)

My company just announced we are leaving Slack for Google Chat because it is a "superior" (and cheaper) tool.

FML

I finaly managed to make a dark mode on slack desktop app! Still has some bugs (like scrollbar being white) but works well enough for me. If anyone is interested tell me in the comments 🙂

How i did it (Linux paths but should be the same process for Windows):

You can execute scripts in /usr/lib/slack/resources/app.asar.unpacked/src/static/index.js

Using that i figgured out that slack desktop is basically an actual webview to their website and some os hooks.

To edit the contents of the webview you can call `document.getElementsByClassName('WebViewContext')[0].executeJavaScript("alert(1)")`

Then i just simply packaged up some custom css to be loaded with JS.

Quite simple actually.

Using this method you can create all kinds of plugins for slack, so go wild!

I hate the dumbass people that send on slack: "good morning", "good afternoon" or "how are you?" and do not say anything until I reply. If you do this FUCK YOU!! Just ask the fucking question. Now I just ignore everybody until the question is made

and slack ban us too .... :((((

Forget about coffee, nothing wake you up faster than a colleague mentioning your name in the slack channel where the stderr of the app writes.

When you're forever allone

Am I the only one getting a small panic attack every time I get a message on Slack?

When somebody asks you what IRC is and the only way you can explain it is 'It's like Slack, but before Slack.'

Home office:
90% playing games
1% getting things done
9% reading slack

Slackbot, you'll never leave me... right? ... RIGHT??!

My boss, head of IT, doesn't see the benefits of using slack at our company. He thinks it's like instant messenger...

I accidentally chat this on our general channel on Slack.

"I've noticed you can tell how much a British person likes you based on the amount of insults they give you."

The problem is, minute has passed. How I wish I have the time machine.

No more work for today =D

"Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray."

Yup, that's how we work ^_^

Firefox Quantum! So fast, so great, amazing, the best.
..
..
Open with 2 tabs, Slack and YouTube homepage). Whats been rewritten exactly?

Slack is scared as hell about Microsoft Teams that is targeted to enterprise customers.

Did you hear about the full page newspapar ad they did?... Passive aggressive move by slack

Devrant slack theme 😀

Friggin Slack...

Finally convinced manager we need to use slack and it is down.

You know you've grown up when you switch from Discord to Slack

Slack notification in the #booking channel - Whenever our user orders something. 🎉 🔔

So happy to be making this last post

coffee machines (yes both) broke, I changed my slack tagline to "Coffee is a basic human right"

I'm so fed up with this shit

Did this on friday. Now tomorrow is monday.😑

I dread the day that Slack has a “... has read this message 2 seconds ago” feature. Please Slack, continue letting me pretend I haven’t seen that message that I don’t want to reply to.

I try to convince my boss to choose Slack and not Microsoft teams.
What's your opinion on these apps ?

Apparently...

When you accidentally type "git diff" in slack.

I like this platform... it's like Twitter and Slack hooked up for a night.

me: *sees Slack notification*
me at T+2: *unlocks phone, opens devRant*

I might be slightly addicted.

Only when I want to work..

The intern must be back!

Rocket.chat

Free and Open Source Alternative to the Fu*king Slack!

So i have been talking to @dfox about working on some integrations.

One idea was a slack bot, would you use it and what commands would you use?

Slack is cool and all... But do we really have to have an "account per team" ? Damn I cringed so hard when I was setting up two-factor authentication and realized it was this way... Wtf...

When you have to stay awake at nights just to support more timezones and chat..:/

Most productive morning in months.. realized both my email client and slack were closed

Fuck-a-doodle-do Fuck Fuck Fuck what a fucking dipshit. Scared the god damn shit out of me.

So I am deep in code, listening to my music pounding out some code and Drupal configurations and I feel a shadowy draft over my right side like someone is watching me.

I work with a guy that will not for the fucking life of me use Slack to send me a message when I have my headphones on or at all for that matter.

He gets up and walks to my cubicle and just stares with a goofy fucking grin on his face. You know the one. LIke a retarded fucking dog eating shit out of a wire brush. Yeah that's the grin. Silently derping with his fucking derp ass Derp McDerpington face waiting on you to turn around an notice him there instead of knocking on the cubicle wall or waving to get your attention.

The FUCK dude? CreepyPasta

Why? 😑😑

Leave developers in a room long enough and they'll drop verbal communication in favour of irc/slack/discord

Amazon is slowly taking over every corner of the market. Whole foods and most likely Slack next. Amazon for president?

1:15pm - When you're done replying to email, skype, slack, linkedin, and voice messages... :/

So after the original idea getting scraped during a hackathon this week, we created a slack bot to fetch most relevant answers from StackOverflow using user's input. All the user had to do was input few words and the bot handled all typos, links etc and returned the link as well as the most upvoted or the accepted amswer after scraping it from the website.
The average time to find an answer was around 2 seconds, and we also told that we're planning to use flask to deploy a web application for the same.
After the presentation, one of the judge-guys called me and told me that "It isn't good enough, will not be used widely" and "Its similar to Quora".
Never ever have I wanted to punch a son of a bitch in the balls ever.

Discord or Slack? 🤔

How to slack during work like a pro? (if you are a unity developer)

1- make a full screen youtube player inside Unity.
2- fill most of the screen with panels (debug, file browser... etc)
3- watch a video about overwatch or something.

enjoy!!

After more than one year, finally i am on vacation.
16 hours in, my Slack is on fire.

Little story, about how i get things fucked up.
I've been working for two nights on some project, and we have notifications in slack about new commits, and i've been working for myself, not pulling any commits for this time, cause no notifications 've been received, and then when i've tried to commit&push i've realized that there is 14 commits before me, and someone just accidentally turned off notifications :C

1. Coding
2. Answering everything said on Slack

Pick One.

Can someone explain some of my colleagues that THEY DON'T FUCKING NEED A DIFFERENT SLACK TEAM FOR EVERYTHING!

Want to have some random talk? Let's create a new Slack team
Want to add notifications from Git? Let's create a new Slack team
Want to try some new bot they found? Let's create another fucking Slack team

Just shared devRant on our work slack group

Slack seems to be down. Lets just cut some slack.

Didn't go to class on Friday cause some asshole broke into my car. Checked slack for my homework over the weekend before bed and...nothing.

Check slack 2 hours ago... huge project due in 7 hours... wtf slack thanks for no notification and updating my messages late as fuck...

Time to brew some coffee I guess.

Anywhere I can sell my mother for enough RAM to run slack, google chrome, hyperterm and sublime?

So i went back to school to retrain and enter the dev world. It's a 2 year school, half done in a classroom and half by working as an intern.
Working as an intern I've had to deal with some off-shore colleagues with plenty more experience than me. Like 5 years, 8 years etc.
I will probably rant every now and then about these guys, so that's the reason for the above short intro.

Today, one thing that just left me speechless. We have a standup robot on the team slack channel. Most epic answers ever, by this guy: "Yes".
I just have no words for this, so.. enjoy.
Oh, he updated his answers afterwards, but left the first one with "Nothing". Let me know if you guys wanna see the updated one too.

P.S. Hello Ranters!

drives me crazy when people send log or code snippets in slack and don't create a code snippet and send through as a plain message.

My boss does this management by neglect thing - he is hardly in the office and mostly communicates in slack. Today it got really vague and ambiguous.

So - when 4 people don't understand your slack message - the obvious conclusion is that you hired 4 morons...

When the junior fe pushes directly to the brunch you are working on and crashes everything

And he doesnt answer in slack

Loooooove this place

I love Slack because people say all sorts of things and then forget.

So resharing the direct link to a Slack conversation is a passive aggressive way to tell them off.

The second passive aggressive thing is making an animated gif of where that conversation took place.

Slack markdown is different than Discord markdown >:(

Slack is the second most memory hungry application on my laptop. Guess the first one?

If I'm answering your slack messages and emails I'm not CODING

Why do I find devrant more interesting than slack?

Changelog slack

Why can't people pick up on the subtle cues that you are busy? If I am intently looking at my monitors then I am fucking busy! This is not the time to engage in a personal convo. Then do not slack me after that! I wish slack had an icon that conveyed 'under a deadline unless the building is on fire do not disturb'

Slack crashing the Intel Display Driver every 5 minutes.

This is fine.

My react developer tool popped up to tell me that my company slack is using the development build of react not fit for production...

When Slack sees an open source alternative to Slack...

Came home from work.
Turned on pc to start a small project because I got an idea I liked.
Picked my music for programming.
Opened eclipse -> new project -> maven project
UI asks for group and archetype Id. Can't think of a nice name right away
"Let's browse devRant for one or two posts"
That was at least 40 minutes ago. Still browsing.

Since I started working it is really hard for me to do any private projects. But I really want to.

Any suggestions?

I don't care for Slack. There's nothing wrong with Slack. I just don't find a need for it when I already had email + IM. You know what I hate, though. People who show up one day and force Slack down the throat of an organization because "collaboration". Now, every day I hear "I didn't see that. Oh, you put in on Slack? Which channel?", "I put in on Slack", "I don't ever check my email, I just have Slack open", "Instead of filling up your inbox, I'm going to post this on 15 different slack channels" (which is why I have all the channels muted). All from people who can't type 10 words in a row without an emoji.

When you have to lock down #general in #slack because people cant be responsible.

Then get stuck making #bs-general and other #bs prefixed channels so that people know if they join them they will be annoyed.

Slack or Matrix/Riot.im and why?

When you push something onto github, and you get a slack notification and you are like "yay!" and you find out it was because of the commit :/

It's not like I want to slack today but tomorrow is holiday and office internet is down for unknown reason. So ... 😳

I'll just leave this little gem here shall I....

sending memes on Slack

Seriously I think the Slack apps are really among the worst I have ever had to use. That is both on mobile (iOS) and desktop (Mac). It’s super slow thanks to Electron Desktop and super buggy on mobile. Connection Speed is really slow as well.

I just hate it.

I hate when one of my cw starts to flood the chat, especially the #general. It goes like:

CW: hey
CW: anyone have a pendrive
CW: ?

Me: I have one (and tells him where he can find on my desk)
Another CW: I have one too

CW: thanks, I'll get the one from <Another CW>
CW: hahahahahaha

You don't need to write a whole thesis in a single message, but at least you should guarantee that each message have some meaningful information, not just "hey", "?" and "hahaha"

Slack is not MSN.

Who should and when it would be a good time to tell him this is a waste of attention?

When slack is down for 3 hours, but ur boss facetimes u and ses we need to review CVS and then u need to stop playing euro truck simulator and start working 🙃.

Q: How many broken releases of HipChat does a dev manager put up with before they move the team to Slack?

A watched slack channel never gets replied to.

I wonder y slack hates upper case alphabets wanted to give my username in camelCase

Holy meta info, Batman!

Reading in a while for a slackbot creation tutorial. Then suddenly, a random note appears:

"Be sure to use version 0.3.0 of slackbots as newer version are not perfectly compatible with what's illustrated in this tutorial."

THEN UPDATE YOUR TUTORIAL!

DO NOT! WASTE MY TIME!

Notifications are not being sent from github to slack. Ok. Looks like that legacy slack github integration that has been telling us its no longer supported for months has finally been deactivated.

Fine. I'll cave and upgrade all 45 of our repos to the new integration.

Thousands of clicks later, finally done.

*but wait*

"Notifications still don't work?"

That's when I saw this notice on github.

FML I want my hour back.

Switched from Skype to Slack for internal team communication...
Wish we could use devRant someday.. 💬

[slack]: here's a nice workspace name. Let's take it.

Workspace started to be unusable (constant refresh). Ticket sent.

[us]: We should delete it and create it again.

Few minutes later - workspace name unavailable. Ticket sent.

(48h later)
[slack]: my precious!!!

In january this year i convinced my whole team to switch from Skype to Stride. And now Stride announced that they are teaming up with Slack... I am going to look like complete idiot because we have to switch once again ... 😥

When the colleague that you're arguing with on a slack channel is an administrator. He has the power to delete anything you post that makes him look like a dick.

I will not submit to this reign of tyranny!

Has any of you worked with someone claiming he's a "Senior Software Engineer" but he does not know what he's doing? I'm not saying I'm a very good developer myself but I know how to differentiate a good code from a garbage code and architecture. It's really becoming a pain in the ass...

Holy crap! Slack just changed their logo.

Slack has to be joking. I just wanted to use it in my browser, because their beautiful and definitely not electron based app takes 600MB RAM. Fuck you Slack!

Slack or HipChat?

Using HipChat from last 1.5 years. We got many bots written for HipChat to automate process. So I think it's gonna be challenging to switch to slack.

When you open slack and keep trying to ++ people's messages :/

Which is a good slack alternative?

-Simple.
-Channels.
-Mobile App.

When your co-worker initiates the conversation like this on Slack or ipMessanger

Co-worker: "heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"

Me: :|

Been teaching for this place a while. Still have yet to be paid or properly onboarded. Needless to say, I've emailed them a half dozen times already about it. And including colleagues, have talked to probably ten different people. Monday morning and all of next week until they reply. I will be @channel-ing their primary slack channel until this is resolved. Just curious how much faster devRant will get back to me before these douchebags? <3

Don't know if i'm alone or not.. so i'm gonna leak my secret that my rubber ducky is actually a slack channel i made in my company's slack

1969:
-what're you doing with that 2KB of RAM?
-sending people to the moon

2017:
-what're you doing with that 1.5GB of RAM?
-running Slack

I really hate it when people ignore the messages I sent on slack

I don't mention you or the damn @channel for show

There is some shit that needs to get done, and I even hate it more when they ask me for something I already said on slack

Whaaaaat, you can't read now

One of the top reasons why I decided to work for a different company is that they use Slack.

Man slack is so evil and shit. They wont let you access conversion history without paid plan.WTF?!! That is so evil!

I hope they rot and die in hell. Fuck slack.

My slack status today. This needs to happen...

Got frustrated with some code the other day so I took the liberty of uploading a hurricane of custom emoji on our Slack instead.

Imagine if Slack adds a scheduling feature;

"Production Bug. Need you ASAP" @ 6 AM Monday

Demand for coffee will plummet.

Just started using Slack in the office. Combined with the BitBucket plugin it’s awesome!

Does it bother you when a co-worker keeps talking on phone all day long and it's not work related? It bothers me.

I just had to check our team's slack channel on the last day of my vacation.

We're using Slack for team communication.

After a lot of crappy slack apps I installed the snippetsbot today.

It's just great. Simple but really efficient. I love that damn little thing.

Am I the only one who thinks that Slack is so terribly expensive for a small company?

I'd like less gap between "free" and 8$/month/user...

Slack sort your shit out. slightly_smiling_face ??? Stop making me doubt the authenticity of the smile emoji.

Boss uses @here in Slack channel, waits 5 seconds then tags me and another dev. Not sure he understands how @here works.

People in slack mentioning the entire channel when it's absolutely none of my business

Email.

Slack ftw 😀

Props to slack for this. This is awesome!

Goodbye HipChat, hello Slack.

After doing ANOTHER update to fix the connectivity issue with the Windows client after waking from sleep, it still doesn't work.

Full Stack PHP Developer seems like to have also DevOps involved in my case hehe.