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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by illumin8 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:09PM (#14562245)
This is not true. We use Chime for text every day. It doesn't have all the 3rd party integrations that Slack does, but it give you the same basic functionality.

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by losteric on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:07AM (#14569070)
I use Chime in CDO ;)

Chime is definitely better than Lync, but I stand by my statement that it's not very good at text. It's missing basic UI features like threading or merged comments, profile pictures/icons, not to mention more advanced integrations.

I love using it for meetings... but text functionality is still lagging behind Slack, or even Mattermost (also used within Amzn)

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by phinnaeus on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:10PM (#14563947)
It's definitely true. My team also uses Chime for text every day. The client has virtually no options, even basic formatting stuff that has been available on dozens of IRC clients for decades.

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