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What I find quite strange in Discord (gamers) vs Slack (business/software) is that Discord has syntax highlighting in code snippets, but Slack does not..

• Barrin92 8y ago
  I've found discord to be a very reasonable alternative to slack and I think their branding as a 'gaming service' is more of an effort to carve out a niche than related to functionality. It actually works pretty well as a generic chat / collaboration tool.
• manigandham 8y ago
  Slack does do syntax highlighting. Enter a code snippet and select the language.
  • Insanity 8y ago
    Yeah but not inline with the backticks* Which I find more convenient for small pieces of code rather than making a snippet.
    • dcbadacd 8y ago
      Yeah, the "standard" markdown syntax. Facebook Messenger also supports it. Telegram also doesn't.
  • charrondev 8y ago
    Were finishing a HipChat migration to Slack in January. HipChat doesn’t even have inline code or any syntax highlighting so I’ll be very glad to make the transition.
    • art0rz 8y ago
      HipChat is terrible. The only thing it has going for it is that it allows on-prem, where most alternatives do not.
      • dbbk 8y ago
        It's shutting down so it doesn't have anything going for it.
• bowlich 8y ago
  We joked at my last job that it was just a matter of time before the business migrated from Slack to Discord. :) In fact, Discord became the dev teams unofficial Slack backup whenever Slack went down.