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I don't understand why so many businesses use a product with such a weak SLA as their main mode of communication. Both Hipchat and Slack have terrible uptime guarantees, and you should stay away from them.
This is pretty surreal for me. I tried out Slack briefly when they first allowed the public to request accounts. Made a mental note "cool", and moved on. The next year or so I started to see a lot more teams/companies that were getting on the Slack hype-train, and now this. Huge props to the team on this valuation but I'm still quite confused.
Yeah, I agree completely. I really don't see the value compared to the alternatives.
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Anyone I work with that can't use IRC I wouldn't want in our chat. I'd prefer they use email or do face to face meetings simply because of the sheer volume of information I'd need to convey to communicate effectively.
Two can play that game: I'd never work with anyone who insists on the abomination that is IRC.
Non-technical users that are unable to use IRC require more handholding than other users. I'm not capable of providing that via a chat client.
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It's just chat. We've had chat services for a long time, although the options for biz/corporate/enterprise have traditionally sucked. There is a lot of efficiency gained since emails can often be heavy and include lots of extra wording, signatures, greetings, etc. There are plenty of conversations that just move faster through a lightweight chat system. Lots of companies were using MSN, Skype, Lync, Gmail, IRC, etc t…
>>It's just chat. No, it is not "just chat." Chat is just one function. Slack basically brings ALL of the information that is relevant to your team in one place. It has out-of-the-box integrations with a TON of services, and all the data they are sending to your team's Slack feed can then be search on, which provides massive productivity advantages.
> They all offer various abilities above just chat messaging like APIs and integrations to get notified about various other things all in the same place.
Thanks for the confirmation.
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>>It's just chat. No, it is not "just chat." Chat is just one function. Slack basically brings ALL of the information that is relevant to your team in one place. It has out-of-the-box integrations with a TON of services, and all the data they are sending to your team's Slack feed can then be search on, which provides massive productivity advantages.
So... it's just chat. With some integrations. I already stated this: > They all offer various abilities above just chat messaging like APIs and integrations to get notified about various other things all in the same place. Thanks for the confirmation.
It's OK though. I know you're just being obtuse.
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So... it's just chat. With some integrations. I already stated this: > They all offer various abilities above just chat messaging like APIs and integrations to get notified about various other things all in the same place. Thanks for the confirmation.
Just because the integrations present the data to the user in a chat interface does not make it "just chat." It's OK though. I know you're just being obtuse.
And no it doesn't bring "all the information" together, there's still plenty happening outside of it.
Enjoy using it but we don't need all the abstract hyperbole.