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I'd certainly find some analysis of this interesting to read. Campfire was popular throughout my more technical social groups up until a couple of years ago but

I'd certainly find some analysis of this interesting to read. Campfire was popular throughout my more technical social groups up until a couple of years ago but never came close to the intensity around Slack. I imagine having a rather powerful free plan helped a lot, although Hipchat might disprove that.

ch4s3 12y ago
Yeah, but the consensus seems to be that Atlassian ruined HipChat. I'm not sure if that's true, but everyone I know that switch lists that as a top reason.
- georgespencer 12y ago
  Still using Hipchat. Seems fine.
  - jcruiz 12y ago
    Ever since Atlasssian started a HipChat marketing campaign in San Francisco. The servers have gone down a couple of times at least. Dunno if there is any correlation with that. But in general it works as expected.
- optimusclimb 12y ago
  Been using HipChat for almost 3 years (so I believe, pre Atlassian, and post.) It seems well suited to purpose, and works fine for me. The only gripes I have are minor (for instance, their iOS offering has this infuriating behavior that it will notify you for direct messages, and throw up the old red dot on the app icon, but then provide no ability to see where the message came from when you open the app.) In light of how well it works, I am mystified as to how slack has managed to come in to the exact same space and carve out such a massive valuation. If there was ever an industry ripe for disruption, the "modern chat client with goofy icons that allows you to post gifs and search your chats without arcane IRC syntax" did not seem like one to me.
  - ch4s3 12y ago
    The search actually feels really nice. I'm mostly indifferent to them on the web, but Slack native and on iOS is a bit nicer.
jcdavis 12y ago
> Campfire was popular throughout my more technical social groups up until a couple of years ago but never came close to the intensity around Slack Slack is a substantially better experience than Campfire

ch4s3 12y ago

Yeah, but the consensus seems to be that Atlassian ruined HipChat. I'm not sure if that's true, but everyone I know that switch lists that as a top reason.

georgespencer 12y ago
Still using Hipchat. Seems fine.
- jcruiz 12y ago
  Ever since Atlasssian started a HipChat marketing campaign in San Francisco. The servers have gone down a couple of times at least. Dunno if there is any correlation with that. But in general it works as expected.
optimusclimb 12y ago
Been using HipChat for almost 3 years (so I believe, pre Atlassian, and post.) It seems well suited to purpose, and works fine for me. The only gripes I have are minor (for instance, their iOS offering has this infuriating behavior that it will notify you for direct messages, and throw up the old red dot on the app icon, but then provide no ability to see where the message came from when you open the app.) In light of how well it works, I am mystified as to how slack has managed to come in to the exact same space and carve out such a massive valuation. If there was ever an industry ripe for disruption, the "modern chat client with goofy icons that allows you to post gifs and search your chats without arcane IRC syntax" did not seem like one to me.
- ch4s3 12y ago
  The search actually feels really nice. I'm mostly indifferent to them on the web, but Slack native and on iOS is a bit nicer.

jcdavis 12y ago

> Campfire was popular throughout my more technical social groups up until a couple of years ago but never came close to the intensity around Slack Slack is a substantially better experience than Campfire