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Re:Ryver: Why we run negative ads against Slack by gremlinsinc on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:45PM (#12447492)
The biggest problem with all of these I think is who owns the data, you're much better getting Mattermost and creating your own inhouse system. It'd also be much more secure - assuming you have the team to do so. I haven't looked into it but how easy is it to get all chats from slack to ryver? Is there an import? What if there were a protocol for that like imap ?

There's lots of room for disruption with this technology, but being the same as slack in most things isn't it..

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Re:Ryver: Why we run negative ads against Slack by nickpsecurity on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @06:51PM (#12448679)
"The biggest problem with all of these I think is who owns the data"

Absolutely. It's why I'm against all of them. Best to have your communications in an open, vendor-neutral form with at least one copy local so you can guarantee access to anything critical. Indefinitely. Email already handles that well kludgy as it is. Next solution needs to be able to as well. Although, that's not required for popularity as we see with Slack, etc.

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