After acquiring ScreenHero, Slack is officially abandoning the idea of sharing screen control between users. A lot of devs rely on this kind of functionality for remote pairing.
This kind of sucks because ScreenHero died in order to join Slack in the first place, so now we're left without anything.
To their credit, Slack suggested alternatives in their post.
Another alternative is Tuple, which is currently invite-only but is built by people a good rep in the software ecosystem. It's worth checking out if you were relying on Slack.
For discussion:
What are your thoughts on the whole situation?
Any other good alternatives you know of?
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CodeTogether is a good option. The Agile Thoughts podcast goes into details:
agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/cod...
How sad. I finally get on a paid Slack tier during Covid times and now no Screenhero.
Agile Thoughts podcast covered a plugin called CodeTogether that's available on most IDEs (not Xcode), episodes 109-112 (they're 10 minute episodes): AgileNoir.biz/series/agile-thought...
The tool is free to a point and very easy to use.
Bottom line is this is just a ploy to generate more revenue for the partners. It is a really bad decision as now we would have to purchase licenses for software just because we cant control the screen anymore. EVERYONE used it in our company for various things. Now we are stuck looking for an alternative and we DONT want 2 pieces of software.
They should have sent direct annoucements as well. This took us by suprise and really pissed alot of our staff off.
Long live the Tuple 😎🤙
Just go to MS Teams lol
Microsoft it's doing excellent tools and Microsoft Teams it's an excellent alternative to Slack.
Share desktop and control works like a charm. Did you see the new option to blur background?
Only bad thing it's use around 600 MB of memory.
The reviews of MS Teams is mixed, AFAICT. Other aspects of Teams (outside of conferencing) are rather poor. And yet another app loaded by default.
I think everyone is upset because Slack covered a huge need. I've seen a shop run on G-suite, Github, and Slack, because that's all they needed, besides a coffee machine.
Visual Studio live sharing works, and it's simple to set up.
What was so great about screen hero? What is the problem using zoom instead?
Does anyone use repl.it? It does have a multiplayer function.
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