A selection of reasons I have heard. - Because self hosted HipChat / IRC / XMPP / is not cool enough. - Because we are all supposed to use Lync / Skype for Bu

A selection of reasons I have heard. - Because self hosted HipChat / IRC / XMPP / is not cool enough. - Because we are all supposed to use Lync / Skype for Business, but it sucks on OSX / Linux / in general. - Because we are a small team, and maintaining a chat server is too much for us. - Because we don't know (or want to know) how Slack works. - Because shiney, such giffy, such memes. - Because its free. - Because my software engineers don't know how to connect to IRC There is varying levels of good and bad reasons in there. (personally I am still a irrsi / IRC person, but I fully acknowledge I am not in the majority anymore)