I've been hosting a personal server, a company server, and servers for every one of clients since we started as a web consulting company. It's far superior to

I've been hosting a personal server, a company server, and servers for every one of clients since we started as a web consulting company. It's far superior to Slack for remote work in our experience because it's designed to be primarily used asynchronously, as opposed to something like Slack/IRC where you have a wall of unread messages all mixed together every time you sign in. The biggest difference is that every conversation must have a topic title and be put into a stream, giving all the benefits of forums or email threads with subjects. Compare that to Slack/IRC where the the default mode is putting your messages in big firehose channels that don't encourage breaking individual conversions out into separate threads.