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Re:Slack raises $120M Led by Google Ventures and KPCB at $1.... by sanderjd on Friday October 31, 2014 @01:38PM (#8539999)
Yeah they should definitely fix this. I don't think it's a very useful product without a good native client.
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Re:Slack raises $120M Led by Google Ventures and KPCB at $1.... by eli on Friday October 31, 2014 @01:43PM (#8540035)
The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure the HipChat client is (or at least was) mostly just a shim around a web browser with some notification stuff bolted on. This doesn't need to be a huge undertaking.
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Re:Slack raises $120M Led by Google Ventures and KPCB at $1.... by michaelmachine on Friday October 31, 2014 @03:37PM (#8540680)
That is all the slack client is as well. You can right click to inspect all the ui elements.
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Re:Slack raises $120M Led by Google Ventures and KPCB at $1.... by eli on Friday October 31, 2014 @05:06PM (#8541135)
Maybe it's changed since I last looked, but they didn't have a client at all. You could download Chrome and then install an "app" through the Chrome store. Well, some of my users prefer Firefox... I don't know, it just wasn't a great onboarding experience.

In retrospect, though, I might've gone too far the other way -- hipchat is pretty bare bones.

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