XMPP would have been a nice substitute. Will all the history record in plain text and grep'ability without having to write slack webhooks handlers to perform ba

XMPP would have been a nice substitute. Will all the history record in plain text and grep'ability without having to write slack webhooks handlers to perform basic automation is a serious time saver and force multiplier. I think the most troblesome aspect of Slack is the "highlighting" individuals. Usually the most productive command during a typical work day is ... `killall slack` :)