Honestly, I can't... I know what I like about Slack, but I can't really articulate what I didn't like about HipChat. I think it lacked something that made it i

Honestly, I can't... I know what I like about Slack, but I can't really articulate what I didn't like about HipChat. I think it lacked something that made it interesting, but also HipChat was somewhat foisted on me initially. That's the TL;DR; - here is a story which may give you no more information than that: I was working out of AlleyNYC when HipChat was getting big and they started using it internally and told all their companies that they needed to get on HipChat so they could get door/package notifications, announcements and talk to the staff... "by the way, it's awesome!". We installed it, setup our accounts and the whole nine yards, but can't remember any point where I found HipChat showing me any value over Google Hangouts. When one of my colleagues mentioned Slack (weeks later) it was very casual and when I signed up I found lots of interesting things readily available to me that I hadn't found other places (integrations, style, notifications, slick mobile apps, etc.). Now, that's my subjective experience... was I in a bad mood that day I was told I needed to use HipChat and din't like being told what to do? What I in a particular good and open mood when Slack happened to be mentioned? If this had happened the other way around would I be a HipChat user? I have no idea... my hunch is that the Slack style interested me more and that their startup tutorial presented their value more plainly and obviously than HipChat - but it could be as simple as the different context that I was exposed to them in.