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Slack is undoubtedly better than IRC, but so is Flowdock or HipChat and the other players that existed in this space before. Slack's innovation was getting a h
by Eridrus 10y ago
Slack is undoubtedly better than IRC, but so is Flowdock or HipChat and the other players that existed in this space before.
Slack's innovation was getting a huge funding round, blowing it on advertising to mainstream non-tech markets and trying to build a competitive moat with 3rd party integrations that other developers are incentivized to make on their own due to Slack's large user base.
- KevanM 10y agoI only heard of Slack through people showing off their ridiculous bots on Twitter. I think the first was the bot that told you off for using gendered pronouns. The evangelism it has fostered has been a great promoter, however now I think if our company (non-tech) adopted it - it would be a massive distraction.
- dleslie 10y agoI prefer IRC because I can grep the logs. Slack's search is next to useless.