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and thats where my quesiton is not for the employees but for the employers. Why are you choosing to use a product in your company that has no use.

If it had use then it wouldnt make people "crazy". It would make them happy. This inherently leads me to believe it has no use.

Personal experience, there is no golden rule to these things. Email , slack , google calendar. You eventually need to build your own relationship with these things and be adult enough to maintain that relationship (inbox at 0), seperate it from your emotions and be prepared to toss it to the side for in person conversation.

Its not slack that is making people crazy its the policies of using it at the company (or usually the lack there of) that make its benefit inconsistent. But it seems slack has not improved the situation but only exacerbated it.

"Some times my clients call me and ask 'What is my social security number'"

hollywood idiots

these must be models and actors

dont use it ... if a production is actually not making your life better why tie yourself down to it.

just use what works, force slack to innovate

Why this works for a dashboard but not for anything else:

-design is inheriently unique. You want your brand and your site to standout from the rest. A one size fits all design methology actually goes against design. A design framework for the web is like saying all stores should look the same. Even restaurants dont look the same and they are in the same usecase. Design matters and cannont be churned out like a factory product (or good design at least). There are 2 80/20 rules here. You can get 80% of your good design by adhering to 20% of the standards, yet its the last 20% of good design that makes your site stand out and the first 80% is just basic usability.

-dashboards are purely functional and not user facing (at least the admin dashboards I hope this framework is talking about). This is a great place to use a standard framework and get all the reuse out of it so you can focus on making your user facing site unique

because we are not cheap and are ok with paying for a service.

How cheap should it be. There will be no service that people will pay for if they pirate content. The service they want is a service where they dont have to pay.

If you are pirating you are not a customer. Any business man should not be concerned with trying to gain your market, its not profitable.

"We want an on-demand nexus."

up until a point ... HBO has been all about the entire pipeline from its inception because it feels (and has proven) that its content alone is good enough for it to be purchased a la carte.

Netflix and all others see this and say ... theres a business model here.

Fastforward 20 years, creating good content is cheaper. There are more film grad students to make the supply cheaper. Add to that the internet which allows you to be your own distributor. Basically its easier to be HBO today than when HBO started and you still get the added profits that HBO gets vs not generating your own content.

We want a hub but well take what we can get as long as the content is good. And we will get custom content because we have shown it pays. I guess we dont want the hub enough.