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Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Post by autojunjie » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 4:18 AM UTC

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Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Post by autojunjie » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 5:01 AM UTC

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Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Post by ilsubyeega » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 5:46 AM UTC

flyrain wrote: post #122

BitsAndObjects wrote: post #107

Use Zulip. The migration out of Slack is actually quite easy and preserves all messages, files, etc. Even the user migration is straightforward, keeping Google or whoever as the identity provider if you prefer.

Zulip is not even close to Slack. It keeps crashing.

FWIW, Zulip is in GSoC this year, so whoever interested in here, i encourage to participate it yea

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Post by cush » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 5:57 AM UTC

fragmede wrote: post #128

cush wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The title is the issue. They're just asking for group chats with Claude

And other people as well, at which point they have basically recreated slack.

Slack is more than group chats

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Post by mezzode » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 5:57 AM UTC

debo_ wrote: post #125

mezzode wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're thinking of Discord

No, I'm not. The company that became the Slack corporation was originally a game studio : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software)#History

Oh wow, TIL that Slack also started like that

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Post by joshAg » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 6:15 AM UTC

xemoka wrote: post #11

This is just crazy. Lets ask the power company to build some trains for us. They transport electricity, they _must_ know about transporting people. They can power the lines themselves! If this was so easy, teams wouldn't suck, matrix would be everywhere, and discord would be replaced already by the furries (as much as stoat is trying).

It's not crazy at all. That's what conglomerates do. GE literally built trains and electricity until 2021 when the train unit got spun off.

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Post by reacharavindh » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 6:56 AM UTC

Or may be an Open Slack that is as good as Slack :-)

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Post by dzhiurgis » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 7:15 AM UTC

That's why Salesforce is so well positioned here. Entire data, client interactions (crm) and admin team (slack) is already mostly there.

For developer like me - Slack bot already proven useful digging out info. Slack also supports kanban so probably can replace jira/asana/etc for documenting system. In Salesforce "vibes" already can tell a lot of stuff about your Salesforce implementation. Connect it all up and you got pretty useful package. Sadly Salesforce is moving too slow here.

For group chats chatgpt has that, but not the same. I think the closest is Airtable where you can collab on data.

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Post by therealdrag0 » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 7:22 AM UTC

Esophagus4 wrote: post #203

bandrami wrote: post #178

The fact that everyone hates slack and teams and nobody has built a better group chat yet should really give more people pause than it is currently giving

Combined with the fact that I actually don’t even hate Slack…

Ya slack is great. What’s the problem.

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Post by moomoo11 » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 7:27 AM UTC

Ancalagon wrote: post #92

moomoo11 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you care so much? Do you have life changing equity or are part of the founding team? Or are you just an employee expense line item?

why do you care so little? it only represents thousands of peoples livelihoods.

I only care when I have incentives to care.