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Re:Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation by uberemployee on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:01AM (#15273679)
Uber was on Hipchat, briefly experimented with Slack, went back to Hipchat, and then moved to our own Inhouse chat based on open source project, starting around the beginning the year.

It was bad the first few months, but except for a recently publicized utterly embarrassing security vulnerability, in the last 2 months it's been working great. The mobile app is now much, much better than the HipChat ever was.

Re:Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation by wikibob on Monday September 18, 2017 @07:55AM (#15275044)
What project is the internal tool based on? Mattermost?
Re:Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation by hkarthik on Monday September 18, 2017 @12:21PM (#15277201)
Yes, the internal tool is called uChat and it's based on Mattermost but Uber heavily contributed to Mattermost to make it scale. More details here: https://eng.uber.com/uchat/