[PaulHoule]

The world really needs "one ring to rule them all". (e.g. something that sucks in content from all those places and makes them organizable if not findable)

I worked at a startup where, every two weeks, we had a retrospective meeting and the complaint went around that we had too many places to store documents and that we couldn't find them.

Often the same people who were complaining would tout that we add a (N+1)th place to the N places we already had (N>20 by this point.) I'd be the only one to point out the irony in this, people wouldn't get that it was ironic, management would approve, and it would happen again two weeks later.

It might have been funny except for this: it got us in trouble when we were collaborating with customers and customers would get mad that we were sharing documents in ways they thought were insecure. When it happened more than once with the same customer, we lost some very good customers.

[ojkelly]

not the world, just your team or company or project. Some tools are better suited than others depending on the team/company/project.

But yep you’ve gotta have just one, more and the network effects break down rapidly - at which point it’s no longer a useful tool.

[slightwinder]

> The world really needs "one ring to rule them all". (e.g. something that sucks in content from all those places and makes them organizable if not findable)

We have those, we call it filesystem or fileserver.

[madiator]

https://xkcd.com/927/

[ZetaZero]

I knew which one it was before clicking the link.

[kthejoker2]

Proof that xkcd links are the real-life equivalent of the prisoners yelling numbers instead of jokes

(Context: https://onemansblog.com/2010/05/18/prison-joke/ )