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> HipChat was shut down by Atlassian

Not entirely accurate. It's was bought by Slack, and then shut down.

Didn't they just buy the userbase? I don't think they bought the technology - they also made a lot of devs redundant after the purchase?

They bought the IP, not the product.

I'm not sure the exact details of the purchase, I just know that a deadline was placed on our HipChat installation at work (it would not be renewed, and only supported until date X).

It seems their ultimate goal was to shut down a competitor, so, with the result being the same, I suppose the specifics matter very little.

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