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I think this article completely misses the value of Slack. It's IRC made easy. Very easy, and that makes it very valuable. It's like the iPod, which did everyth

• thinkingkong 12y ago
  Except it's not an article about how amazing Slack is. It's an article on Slack's founder - Stewart. You're coming at the "value add" from a very technical perspective. Which is fine, but it doesn't add weight to the argument. Do you think that a significant percentage of Slacks user base even really know it's based on IRC? Not too many of them are firing up irssi, pining for a better web based IRC client. Indeed irccloud has been around longer than slack and has nowhere near the adoption. The product is solid. The brand is great. Nobody* gives a shit about the protocol sitting behind the glossy surface. *Nobody meaning a significant percentage of paying customers.
• dakotasmith 12y ago
  I think the value of Slack is in how platform agnostic the whole experience is. I have use it on a Nexus 5, iPhone 5c, iPad, in a browser (both IE and Chrome on Windows) and as a native OS X application. All work exactly the same way, and all have the same feature set. Push notifications let conversations happen in real-time. You can turn off Jira, Github, Trello notifications and set up integrations in Slack, create #firehose channel, and now you have corralled all those announcements into one spot. If only I could get the other members of my team to use it, I could maybe talk about its chat features.
• mountaineer 12y ago
  couldn't you say the same thing about hipchat, hall, etc?
• deleted 12y ago
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