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Maybe, so far I've been in a few situations where we didn't go with Slack...only to go back to Slack. Part of the lock-in is their brilliant multi-org client. I
by TheGRS 7y ago
Maybe, so far I've been in a few situations where we didn't go with Slack...only to go back to Slack. Part of the lock-in is their brilliant multi-org client. I can easily go back-and-forth between my company, a contract's IM, an alumni group of people in my last job and a group of local artists that like to talk to each other. Hell I've thought about luring most of my close friends from Facebook onto Slack.
Their API is also quite good IMO, which provides a sort of lock-in, though not a huge one.
- sjy 7y agoDo all your contacts work in the tech industry? I'm wondering if we're really backwards here in Australia, or if I've just had bad experiences. Slack-style messaging seems really uncommon outside tech, even though traditional AIM-style IM is used everywhere. I think a lot of enterprises could benefit from capturing corporate knowledge in searchable Slack channels, but the only teams I see using them are doing IT and software.
- bspn 7y ago> Part of the lock-in is their brilliant multi-org client While not quite as fully-featured as Slack, Keybase offers this. I'm a member of multiple orgs and seamlessly change between conversations (both group and 1-on-1).