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It was a focused product. Native apps, high performance, no funny business. Yes, it lacked some features that the newer stuff had, but it did the team chat part
by zaphoyd 7y ago
It was a focused product. Native apps, high performance, no funny business. Yes, it lacked some features that the newer stuff had, but it did the team chat part really well and got out of your way.
Deploying web apps lets you iterate faster, stuff features in faster without ending up with different capabilities across the group of apps. Sometimes the ability to add features too easily is abused to add too many features without thinking through them.
- hn_throwaway_99 7y agoWhen it was up. The frequent outages on HipChat circa 2014 or so got to be unbearable, and we switched to Slack at that point, and were much happier.