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Re:How Slack hooks users through artificial urgency by ravitation on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:34PM (#15828761)
Even less extreme, I worked at an all remote company that primarily used Skype (pre-Slack). I don't want to go back to that.
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Re:How Slack hooks users through artificial urgency by r00fus on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:58PM (#15828913)
Skype had one benefit: it was easier to add folks to your DM. Other than that, Slack is better. It's essentially Skype++ for us. Bots ... well they never really did much.
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Re:How Slack hooks users through artificial urgency by romwell on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:58PM (#15829316)
More like IRC++, but I read you.
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