My experience with Hipchat was all negative. The ability to format text/code was abysmal. At one point it started crashing after an update and I had to download

My experience with Hipchat was all negative. The ability to format text/code was abysmal. At one point it started crashing after an update and I had to download/install an older version just to use it. I have issues with Slack, but I'd use email threads before I voluntarily went back to Hipchat.