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Is this the beginning of the end of Slack?

Unrelated: I forgot Slack was owned by Salesforce, who also own Heroku. Why am I still using Slack?

.. because it is a mass illusion that you have individual choices in the matter. Companies and some govt agencies are required to have a monitored, logged and legally responsive chat provider. You are not asked if you want to use Slack, you are required to use Slack. hint- expect much more of that

Expect much more of it from who? What are you suggesting changed? Among all the spying enterprise apps, why slack? Afaik, engineers brought slack into many companies and pushed back on alternatives like teams.

Engineers brought slack into companies because it was like IRC but non-tech folk could use it.

Teams didn't exist when slack became "cool". It was Lync or Skype for Business, or something along those lines. The timeline and the rebranding is a bit blurry, but they were truly awful compared to Slack.

Slack stopped being cool (for me) when they killed the IRC bridge. After that it became just another enterprise tool that was doomed to be hated.

There should be Hipchat in the timeline and many xmpp deployments.

Hipchat was great. Native app too.

here in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA .. this is what I have seen myself.. Teams has taken a new front-position in this category yes

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