On: Ask HN: Why Doesn't Microsoft Fix Skype?

[zeeed]

Teams is not a replacement of SFB but a performance-hungry, battery-killing, unusably slow and overloaded poor mash-up of Skype, SharePoint and Mail in an attempt to beat Slack.

[randomvectors → zeeed]

Not too hard to beat Slack's user experience though.

[Chyzwar → randomvectors]

Beside Discord, everything else is pretty bad compared to Slack. Microsft and Google failed to deliver anything usable for the last 10 years.

[MH15 → Chyzwar]

Discord and VSCode really seem to prove that there can be good Electron apps. These apps are great, and take advantage of the perks of web technologies.

Now when I look at Slack or Atom...

[mycall → randomvectors]

Matrix.org has some interesting new ideas beyond slack

[randomvectors → mycall]

I just checked out Riot. Looks nice.