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Would you mind linking to the competing service you mention, or perhaps a review of it? I've been advocating for Hipchat but haven't seen Slack yet.

• saiko-chriskun 12y ago
  www.google.com
• davidkuridza 12y ago
  https://slack.com/ https://slack.com/ We switched from HipChat recently, so far it's working fine. The only thing we miss are cross team notifications, but apparently they are working on it (can't find the link at the moment).
  • alexcroox 12y ago
    Does it integrate with 3rd party chat clients like Adium or are you forced to have their tab/client open too?
    • bcj 12y ago
      You can connect to it using an IRC client, but you lose the ability to view history or make edits to posts
      • baddox 12y ago
        You also lose the ability to mention other team members, which is huge.
  • davidkuridza 12y ago
    @alexcroox can't reply directly for some reason, hopefully you'll see this. It's possible, see https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connecting-to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connec... for more details. You'll lose the history though. We've been using native clients more or less, all are working fine.
• bmelton 12y ago
  Not the OP, but here's a link: https://slack.com/ https://slack.com/ I've used it, and it seems pretty good, but I don't have enough time behind the wheel to provide a review.
• IbJacked 12y ago
  Since I've only dabbled with it I can't provide a proper review, but the link is https://slack.com/ https://slack.com/
• owenwil 12y ago
  Here's a small review of how we use Slack at our company: http://hoistapps.com/blog/tools-we-love-slack/ http://hoistapps.com/blog/tools-we-love-slack/ tl;dr: it's awesome
• jess1003 12y ago
  If you communicate with more than one team (different emails), I'd look into Hall. It's chat, text, file-sharing on all your devices. Hall.com