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Am I the only one who loads the website for some of these alternatives, see they use flat design and immediately closes the tab? This isn't a slack alternative

Am I the only one who loads the website for some of these alternatives, see they use flat design and immediately closes the tab? This isn't a slack alternative, per se, but I really like quip. It lets you create and share documents. You can then leave comments on a part of a document and tag other people, who will then get alerted. It lets you have conversations entirely within in the context of, for example, a design document. It would be perfect if it also had tight integration with a task tracker.

contrived 7y ago
You are not the only one. OP is clearly in possession of a solution missing its problem. "We are all clear about how we want to 'fix' Slack by making it disappear, because, uh... it's just... you know... like, bad, and stuff. So... How did you all 'fix' Slack?" The reality is that there's probably some ruffled feathers because price, third party paranoia, parasitic dependency lock-in, or disruptive loss of control in the social order is emerging as silos collapse and middle manager sociopaths lose their vice-like totalitarian grip on the comings and goings of their subordinates. The truth is, Slack is just a chat window. What makes it different is that it's not free, and HR doesn't receive a backdoor into private direct messaging without purchasing "compliance exports" and even those aren't observable in real-time. This stipulation has some merit. Slack can backdoor any and all messages in real time, and just because they usually don't doesn't mean they can't. The travesty is that your typical HR stooge (or condescending desktop IT Napoleon) isn't standing up for what's right. They only raise a finger to complain about how they're unable to share in what's wrong.