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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by oweiler on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:59PM (#25270552)
Of all the messengers I've used Chat is by far the worst. Especially threading is almost unusable.
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by colinmhayes on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:05PM (#25270629)
I don't think that matters really. Maybe companies that are already using slack won't switch, but if you're using chat, which is free, are the executives really going to decide that it's worth paying to switch to slack? I think it's unlikely. Hard to see where the market is other than startups that are already using slack. Slacks revenue is currently nowhere near enough for this valuation and I can't see it getting where it needs to.
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by benhurmarcel on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:42PM (#25271030)
At least they have threads, but yes the way they do it is pretty terrible. I wish they took some inspiration to Zulip.

Also it's really slow.

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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by dexterdog on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @07:20PM (#25271837)
How can it be worse than threading on slack?
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