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A comment on Ask HN: What problem did Slack solve?.

Re:Ask HN: What problem did Slack solve? by fwsgonzo on Saturday August 20, 2022 @06:34AM (#32530915)
It looks more corporate than Discord despite being worse in every other way. It's been years and they are adding low quality features at a fraction of the rate of Discord who is still thriving. It also has better GSuite integration, I suppose?

I guess one other thing about Slack is that I can completely ignore it after work. Like having work inside a single app that is for nothing else. For some godawful reason Go and Kotlin decided to use Slack, but that just means we can safely ignore those places.

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Re:Ask HN: What problem did Slack solve? by solar-ice on Saturday August 20, 2022 @07:17AM (#32531126)
Slack was everywhere, years before Discord was in common use. Discord, really, was just Slack for gamers - but more importantly, it was a replacement for Teamspeak and self-hosted forums.
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Re:Ask HN: What problem did Slack solve? by _flat20 on Saturday August 20, 2022 @07:17AM (#32531123)
Yes, the USP of Slack is that you can close it down when you're done working for the day. It does nothing better, or much worse, than any other social media chat application, except it wraps up work in one button press.

Not sure how you could monetize that but hopefully the Slack staff doesn't know either.

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