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Re:Slack Platform Launch by jbigelow76 on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @01:07AM (#10742678)
Sounds like HipChat has the unfortunate distinction of being the Friendster of the chat space, sometimes the gods are fickle.
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Re:Slack Platform Launch by smt88 on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @04:56PM (#10747661)
My current theory is that HipChat was purchased (and marketed) to be part of the Atlassian suite. They may have believed there wasn't enough upside in a chat client to market it as a standalone product.
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