Why is it that there's a surge of chat clients nowadays? - Slack, HipChat (the latter I can't use it in my coworking space because it requires everyone to use

Why is it that there's a surge of chat clients nowadays? - Slack, HipChat (the latter I can't use it in my coworking space because it requires everyone to use the same email domain) - 38 days ago Hack.chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9863152 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9863152 - 79 days ago RocketChat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9624737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9624737 - Yesterday Heim/Euphoria - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10068943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10068943