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Stride — Atlassian's new group messaging and video meeting platform
Stride is a new way for teams to talk, meet, decide and do. With group chat & direct messaging, voice and video conferencing, and built-in collaboration tools, Stride is a team communication platform from the makers of Hipchat.
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@ilan Thank you! Glad you like what you see, and would love to have you join up on Stride
I don't have specific details I can share on how exactly we'll be wielding Actions + Decisions, but you can bet we'll be doing all sorts of cool things with them!
@cameronsavage thanks Cameron, you didn't answer my question though ;) Do you have a simple task view that aggregates all my tasks created across Stride?
@ilan @cameronsavage I have to imagine you're planning a deep Trello integration, which is unannounced?
@andygcook Thank you!
Developers who apply for the Stride API early access program will have first opportunity to list their Stride apps in the embedded app marketplace within Stride, as well as appear in our Atlassian Marketplace.
You can learn more, and apply, from the API announcement here: https://community.developer.atla...
And also, a link to the Marketplace – Stride will be there soon! https://marketplace.atlassian.com/
Congrats @cameronsavage and the team! Just in time for Summit as well (which I'm super excited for - my first ever Atlassian Summit)! Cannot wait to get my hands on this to test it out - am hoping for seemless integration with other Atlassian products (mainly Service Desk + StatusPage) 😻
@gadgick Thank you! Definitely come by the Stride booth at Summit (I'll be there along with the rest of our product team), and be sure to attend our talks!
@cameronsavage Sweet! I'll add the booth to my must-stop-by list. I couldn't find the talks on the Summit app...?!
@gadgick Two talks and several 'Demo Den' across Wednesday and Thursday
WED
• 11:00 - 11:40am: "Hit your Stride: Designing Real-time Collaboration for Teams" – Sara Dubuque from our Design team
• 2:20 - 2:35pm: "Introducing Stride: Reinventing Team Communication" – Ron Adams from our Product team
• 3:50 - 4:30pm: "How talking becomes doing with Stride" – Me!
• 4:50 - 5:05pm: "Introducing Stride: Reinventing Team Communication" – Ron Adams from our Product team
THURS
• 10:30 - 10:45am: "Introducing Stride: Reinventing Team Communication" – Ron Adams from our Product team
@cameronsavage Excellent, thank you! I've found them in the app so have added them to my agenda! Super excited to see the demo's & look forward to seeing the team on the booth 👍
I can't seem to find any screenshots that show off their thread / reply feature. Am I missing it somehow?
It is supposed to be that "branch crooked arrow" button? This doesn't seem to solve the problem of everyone's first instinct of "post directly to chat to everyone for everything" and the endless barrage of noise and notifications.
@markjharvey We do not have threading, nor have we advertised it. Did you see somewhere that makes you think we have it?
FWIW, we have tested threading, and it does not solve for the problems we set out to solve with Stride – it created additional noise. The act of fragmenting a single conversation into multiple threads didn't help the entire team get things done, it created more overhead to keep up with your team and more information off in silos.
@markjharvey I have seen Twist – and I'm not convinced it solves for the full breadth of the team communications problems we experience today.
That said, I will be interested to see how Twist evolves. There's a sharp team behind that project!
@cameronsavage I'd love nothing more than Atlassian to make a great work chat platform. Your screenshots / videos show people posting directly to chat, alerting and notifying everyone without regard, which is the core problem of Slack, HipChat, etc.
Please fix this 🙏🏼
@markjharvey We've put a lot of time and thought (and testing!) into giving you control over what is notifiable activity on a per-conversation basis. Chat is still one of the core communication channels, but we've baked a good default, and all the custom nobs you might need to dial it in. Additionally, we've created "Focus Mode" to quickly turn down all general activity so you can focus on a single task.
I can't post a screenshot in PH responses, but if you look at the "Get work done with the freedom to focus" section under the "How it Works" tab on the Stride.com website you can see some visual aids for how you might customize your world.
Or, for a TL;DR form, here's *how* it works:
• Set an individual conversation's importance level for notifications – you, you+team, everything
• Chose how notifications appear to you – sound? mobile? etc.
• Set your presence if you need to be away
• Engage Focus Mode if you just need some time to zero in on a task
Very interested in your thoughts on that ^^, it's one of our core goals to solve for the problem you called out in your comment.
@cameronsavage That's good to know. Sorry for all the flack in here but I am extremely frustrated with Slack and all competitors in the work-chat space. It's incredibly noisy and distracting. Having a Focus Mode (DND or Snooze in Slack) just seems to create a backlog of notifications people will either NOT get to / ignore or spend time going through (unproductive time).
Side note, one of the few good things I liked was "All Unreads" or a place to view everything at a glance and "mark all as read". This saved me tons of time.
I still think the platform has a responsibility to change people's primary go-to habit of "post to chat to everyone". Perhaps start with breaking the habit of posting "thank you" and "OK" to chat to signify "I've read your message" (a hold over from email). Emoji reactions solve that but are not enforced enough IMO.
Tasks is really helpful. One of my frustrations with Slack is that it's easy to forget what you commit to in there.
@andrewwarner Glad to hear you think so. We've spent some time working with them now, and it's been wonderful
@andrewwarner May be worth checking out https://www.busybot.com/ !! - 'Convert any Slack message to a task. Hit the zap emoji, and Busybot will turn that message into a task'
@andrewwarner the killer solution we use for task management from Slack is https://www.busybot.com/ especially because you get nagged to follow up WITHIN Slack
@cameronsavage we're heavy users of Trello (our project management tool) and Slack (our discussion / messaging tool) but we've always been disappointed with the lack of integration between the two (we've tried both Trello apps for Slack).
Have you thought about how Trello could work with Stride, on a much deeper and more holistic basis?
I can see some simple things like creating tasks in Trello from the Actions & Decisions feature, but I'm sure you guys will have better ideas..
@cameronsavage guess some news here https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/1... -- any more insights on this??
Will be interesting to see how well this does. It's a bit late to the game, but the pricing is attractive. Plus the free account includes 15k more messages than Slack's and has group video.
Congrats @cameronsavage and the entire Atlassian team. Really excited to try this out when it's ready. I particularly love the focus on helping you take action on the conversations you are having in Stride with decisions and action items. Kudos and best of luck with the roll-out!
@mattnhodges Many thanks! We're beyond excited – and it makes it even better that you are excited too. Looking forward to your thoughts when you do try it out!
Hipchat had no problems so we went ahead and created a new slack clone from scratch ~ Atlassian 2017
@cameronsavage any details about capabilities of API and what the integration surface area will look like?
@mbrevoort Hey, Mike. Pasting a comment I also added above about API (even though it's a paste, I still <3 you specifically as a person):
Developers who apply for the Stride API early access program will have first opportunity to list their Stride apps in the embedded app marketplace within Stride, as well as appear in our Atlassian Marketplace.
Best info will be available from the API announcement here: https://community.developer.atla...
Slack apps suck performance wise. expecting Atlassian to do a better job there.
Pros:way cheaper than slack, slightly better features (to-dos , decisions)
Cons:Yet another slack clone.
We've been working on a bot for slack, and the features were very limited. Making the transition to Stride, we've found a lot more features that make the UX much richer and with more possibilities.
I'm sure you'll like it.
Check it out, while the public version is out:
https://goo.gl/XAHLhF
Atlassian design and product team deserves a big kudos.
Stride logo is wow - It simply denotes the long step!
The new feature "Decision" is something very new in chat platform will be very useful..
Awaiting to use it 😍. The Landing page is killer!
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Hey Hunters! Cameron from the Atlassian Stride team here. @nick beat me to posting. Quick hunting, sir!
Stride is the complete communication solution that empowers teams to talk less and do more. It's everything you need to stay connected and keep moving.
Let's hit the highlights:
*Express yourself with a kickass messaging experience*
The foundation of a strong communications tool today is a strong messaging tool. We've built a lightweight, powerful, messaging experience to help you and your team communicate effectively.
It starts with putting your ideas into words, and our full-featured editor provides you the tools you need – text formatting, code markdown, files and links, previews, and of course message editing. But sending messages is only half of it, you have full control over what messages you are notified about so you keep track of what matters, and our powerful Search makes sure you can always find what you need.
*Connect to anyone, anywhere with Meetings*
The easiest way to talk face-to-face with your teammates is just a click (or tap!) away. Jump into an impromptu video meeting and add your coworkers by name, dial out, or share a link.
Share your screen to show off your latest genius, or grant a teammate control of your desktop when you can't figure out how to configure your company's VPN.
*Move things forward with integrated Actions and Decisions*
Isolate important follow-ups by marking any message as an Action or Decision, or create one of your own to summarize a longer discussion. Rather than getting buried in your message history, Actions and Decisions live neatly in your sidebar, accessible any time — it’s like having a built in TL;DR for every conversation!
*Turn down distractions with Focus Mode*
Focus Mode makes it simple to step away from the action of the workday and dive into deep work. With one click, Focus Mode mutes notifications and incoming messages and lets your team know you’re heads down on that important project.
Most of this is FREE for all teams – including Stride's Video Meetings.
Our paid tier is just $3 / User / Month – less than your morning latte, and far less than the combined cost of what three different products might be (smile)
We’re stoked to finally get to share what we’ve been working so hard on for you, our users, and this is just the beginning for Stride — expect to see a lot from us in the coming months!
I’ll be sticking around to answer any questions from y’all.
– Cameron
PS You can sign up for our early access program here: https://www.stride.com
@cameronsavage Hi there- great to see this update. As a enterprise HC Server customer (on-prem due to healthcare regulatory requirements), what does this mean for us?
@bmehling It's true that Stride is for Cloud, tailored specifically to the cloud customer needs and priorities. But Atlassian is also doubling down on Hipchat Data Center, and we’re continuing to invest in HCDC as Atlassian’s self-hosted communication offering.
You can expect to see some cool announcements from them at next week's Atlassian Summit, so tune in! https://www.atlassian.com/compan...
@cameronsavage Interesting. Okay.
Our key requirement is HIPAA compliancy (signed BAA). Any plans for Stride to offer that as an option? Thx!
@bmehling Stride will not be HIPAA compliant on launch, and we don't have a product-specific timeline on it. But the good news is Atlassian tackles compliance at a company level across all of our products. You can see our current philosophy and stats on (and new updates) on https://www.atlassian.com/trust
@bmehling Also take a look at their blog post that just went live :)
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/h...
As a user who went from Hipchat to Slack to Hipchat and is now headed back to Slack, if Atlassian doesn't fix their availability issues for enterprise messaging, this will not touch Slack's market. Hipchat had multiple incidents where their status page stated they were "up/available" while status throughout social and their own emails said they were having widespread issues. Transparency would go along way.
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