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tl;dr of difference to Slack: a) 2.5x faster to load initially than Slack, b) UI that will "sweep you of your feet", c) seamless app integration (according to

• me551ah 10y ago
  Also apps are a lot more powerful in flock. In slack you can only interact with apps using slash commands. In flock, an app can declare UI buttons in multiple places which can trigger actions like opening a widget or sending events to app backend. You can also include widgets inside your messages (e.g. checkout our polls app). Read our API docs for more: https://docs.flock.co/ https://docs.flock.co/ (PS: I work in the Flock android team)
  • spdustin 10y ago
    You may want to rethink how you differentiate Flock from Slack https://api.slack.com/docs/message-buttons https://api.slack.com/docs/message-buttons
    • me551ah 10y ago
      Flock supports message buttons too. And also buttons for apps across the UI, more on that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zQfbeh_gKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zQfbeh_gKk -- Not just that, you can craft your own custom UI in an inline attachment widget which can do whatever you want (for e.g. take a look at polls app) And finally, apps are first class citizens in Flock, which means they have much deeper integration with UI widgets. You can have an app show its own UI right inside Flock, Our To-DO app for instance, is an app anyone could build to extent what Flock can do. More on our platform here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zQfbeh_gKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zQfbeh_gKk ( P.S : I work in the flock android team )