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It is good enough that it got cloned by Mattermost. No one recreates shitty software.
by aiCeivi9 7y ago
It is good enough that it got cloned by Mattermost. No one recreates shitty software.
- xfitm3 7y agoChat is nothing new - there are tons of versions. Chat needs to be customizable. People can be annoying.
- techntoke 7y agoYou mean Slack cloned IRC with markup and pictures
- Andrex 7y agoIf it were that easy, everyone would be IPOing their Slackalikes right now.
- deathanatos 7y agoAnd history. And search. And attachments. And video calls. And a decent experience for non-power-users. And a decent integration/API story. And multi-person DMs. All of which are immensely useful features. I get that HN likes to think "it's just chat", but a decent chat application (having used gChat, Slack, IRC, AIM, …) is way more nuanced than that.
- techntoke 7y agoThe point was it is unfair to say that Mattermost cloned Slack. Many of these technologies aren't unique to Slack.