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Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer by ForHackernews on Saturday September 16, 2017 @05:20AM (#15263749)
For some reason lots of companies are paying for Slack, even though it's basically IRC-plus-emoji, and easily replaced by any of a dozen other chat platforms.

Is it because it's user-facing instead of an infrastructure component?

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Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer by detaro on Saturday September 16, 2017 @08:40AM (#15264384)
Hosted services are compared differently. And I think among those Slack won for now due to a combination of better UX, free intro tier and luck.
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