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There are reasons, but it's also not smart. Organizations that pay for Slack pay for the service, not the shitty client.

• gtirloni 4y ago
  You want to reduce Slack Inc to an API provider. They want to be a client provider too and they own the API server. Do you see where this won't work?
  • tadfisher 4y ago
    The value of Slack Inc is their API, which is currently de-facto locked to their client. People would still pay for Slack if they could use alternative clients, because the client is not the value.
    • gtirloni 4y ago
      You can argue that their client is not as good as it could be, that you have greater skills to deliver a better product, etc. But it has value, otherwise we'd all be using curl to access the Slack API with no downsides. That's clearly not the case by far.
      • tadfisher 4y ago
        > But it has value, otherwise we'd all be using curl to access the Slack API with no downsides. That's clearly not the case by far. Only because it's next-to-impossible to call the API, because of the way they lock features to their client!