It's got a lot of enterprise features that companies like, like SSO integration, message retention policies, security certifications like HIPAA and FedRAMP, and more.
There are also a lot of pre-made apps for integrating with corporate apps like Jira, Gmail, Salesforce, etc.
It's fine, I haven't looked at a lot of other options, but it seems more usable than Google Hangouts (or messenger or whatever they call it now) or Microsoft Teams.
I think a lot of tech companies struggle to break into the non-tech world. Slack might be ubiquitous for SWEs but my SO who works in traffic engineering will probably never use it (they use Teams).
They do. They acquired ScreenHero for screensharing, and then fucked up the integration.
> https://www.xda-developers.com/slack-working-on-video-suppor...
They've only just got it right - check out Huddles. No doubt with their next yearly annual conference they'll be releasing the video version for this.
Is that a case of business people making technical decisions?
That I understand. Do not like, but I understand
I never liked IRC. But to not like it and pay for it? I do not understand.
Am I a fossil?