Let's do another one! Note that it's often been an excuse that Slack has an IRC and XMPP gateways, but, per the article, they've been shutdown in 2018. I real

Let's do another one! Note that it's often been an excuse that Slack has an IRC and XMPP gateways, but, per the article, they've been shutdown in 2018. I really hate Slack for how much memory it requires, and how many bugs it has. The Android app, for example, logs me out of every community if I'm removed from one of them; really "nice" when someone cleans up the resources of an old hackathon to be logged out of all the dozens of various teams you're part of. (Noone even knows how to call each of these individual teams or communities, either; requiring a separate login for all of them is pretty annoying, given that it's all maintained by Slack anyways.) Or when they remove you from an existing hackathon team to make up space for new members, and now you lost all your contacts, and/or have to be re-invited again if you're still participating in the next-year-edition. It's basically a mess. Even for employee communication — from a contractor's perspective — it makes you a non-owner of your own communication, unlike IRC, so, if you so happily accept it, you're basically working against yourself again.