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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by Spooky23 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @09:34PM (#20229032)
They haven’t fucked up hosted chat yet, which is the benchmark.

There is no chat/IM client on the market today that is superior to the pinnacle, which was circa-2000 AOL Instant Messenger. Every platform gets worse every year, except slack.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by pnathan on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:02PM (#20229169)
> They haven’t fucked up hosted chat yet, which is the benchmark.

well put - and - even more so: hosted business chat. all they have to do is keep on keeping on.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by dillonmckay on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:19PM (#20229264)
ICQ was quite impressive in 1997.
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by crummy on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:22AM (#20230404)
ICQ offered offline delivery, which was missing from many chat apps for a long time, too.
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