Slack is essentially an IRC. IRC is pretty much dead nowadays, Slack is just the same concept but with a cloud integration and a modern client. It is neither ne

Slack is essentially an IRC. IRC is pretty much dead nowadays, Slack is just the same concept but with a cloud integration and a modern client. It is neither new nor a particularly good implementation, discord is faster and better as a communication tool and possibly more clones are coming. The only lucky thing for Slack is that it was in the right time in the right place and introduced 30 year old concept to the corporate folks - but this advantage can go away anytime.