A mess.
If my memory serves me correctly, isn't this part of what Google Wave was offering?
My company uses slack. I despised it at first, I tolerate it now. I suspect that we are not using it to it's full potential either.
> Poor man's IRC
What does that mean, fewer features? It's vastly more accessible and the UI easily beats the experience of navigating/selecting/using IRC clients.
> The Dropbox of messaging apps
I don't know what that means. Dropbox is massively successful for 'just working'.
> It's easy but if you want to hide your email from public view or customize anything good luck.
Okay that's new to me, could be an issue. Can you elaborate?
> Slack is notoriously ignorant to customer requests.
Evidence/context?
Slack was never meant to replace IRC, it was meant to be used at work. Why would you hide your email from your colleagues?
Why would you hide your email from your colleagues?
using some IRC client as our chat app