Screenhero is hands down the best (smoothest) screen sharing app I've ever used.
It's bittersweet to see them acquired by Slack as a paid only feature, but I'm happy for the team and it seems like a very ideal kind of acquisition where they solve a problem Slack has and wasn't solving well, and then Slack can scale the Screenhero userbase overnight.
Edit: I just tried this feature in Slack with /call then enabling others to edit and it didn't seem to be as smooth as the usual Screenhero experience. I wonder if something was changed in the integration.
Thanks for making screenhero, it’s been one of my most used applications and I love it. I would have gladly personally paid a monthly subscription for it. But this news makes me very sad. Slack runs like garbage — it’s slow, it has CSS rendering issues (for a desktop app... ugh) every so often, it uses waaay too much RAM (I’ve had it use 4gigs... I’m sorry but chat is never the primary thing I do on my computer, that is not acceptable) — the slack track record when it comes to performance has been pretty bad, so forgive me if I don’t hold my breath. I hope I’m wrong...
Hi there. Thanks for building a truly great product and congrats on the acquisition.
I know your hands are tied to some degree about all this, but I'll make a plea regardless.
We use Screenhero regularly. It is the critical tool for enabling remote collaboration which is a big deal for our distributed teams (all of them).
Our corporate firewall blocks Slack. Plenty of us are upset about that, but it's life for us. As of December 1, we can't use Screenhero anymore and this will be pretty disruptive for us.
We'll find some way to deal, but this is disappointing.
Yea I found the window a bit harder to control as well. I'm also really bummed because I'm not sure how I am going to help my little sister learn to code now that we can't screenhero together. Not gonna make a paid slack channel just for that.
It's bittersweet to see them acquired by Slack as a paid only feature, but I'm happy for the team and it seems like a very ideal kind of acquisition where they solve a problem Slack has and wasn't solving well, and then Slack can scale the Screenhero userbase overnight.
Edit: I just tried this feature in Slack with /call then enabling others to edit and it didn't seem to be as smooth as the usual Screenhero experience. I wonder if something was changed in the integration.