Yep. Slack is a pretty poor re-implementation of IRC, and I'm pretty bummed both my previous and my current company forced me to use it. If we're going to go t

Yep. Slack is a pretty poor re-implementation of IRC, and I'm pretty bummed both my previous and my current company forced me to use it. If we're going to go this route, let's at least use something not so patronizing and infantile, like HipChat. And I'm pretty sick of all these "Slack is going to change/has changed THE WORLD!!!" articles in general.