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Re:Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor by bamboozled on Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:16PM (#15193182)
I really like the idea of slack; However, what happens with slack is that it gets misused.

It becomes an alerting system, task tracker, logging system, code review system and I could go on...

IRC is for realtime communications, other Comms are better off on GitHub Issues etc.

My experience has been slack gets abused.

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Re:Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor by pavel_lishin on Thursday September 07, 2017 @01:53PM (#15194175)
> It becomes an alerting system, task tracker, logging system, code review system and I could go on...

I haven't had this problem at all. We do have certain notifications trigger Hipchat alerts, but they also send out emails, etc. - Hipchat is just a convenience for that.

Maybe it's a Slack problem but not a Hipchat problem?

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