[VA3FXP]

So what do you get when you put IRC and Usenet into a blender?

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.

[allover]

Despise/tolerate/mess? The basic offering is a simple chat client with 'channels' and an easy signup/invite flow afaict.

[myowncrapulence]

Slack is the poor mans IRC. The Dropbox of messaging apps. It's easy but if you want to hide your email from public view or customize anything good luck. Slack is notoriously ignorant to customer requests.

[arnvald]

Whenever someone compares Slack to IRC I try to imagine my company, where 70% of people are non-technical, using some IRC client as our chat app. There's no way this would happen.

Slack was never meant to replace IRC, it was meant to be used at work. Why would you hide your email from your colleagues?

[myowncrapulence]

  Why would you hide your email from your colleagues?

..

  using some IRC client as our chat app

Try IRCCloud, it's extremely simple and much better than Slack in almost every way.

[allover]

What exactly is your complaint?

> 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?

[akx]

FWIW, administrators can turn off Email Display, but it's per-team, not per-member.

[viraptor]

To some extent, yes, it was. I used it for uni projects and remember enjoying the idea a lot. It's the the implementation that was terrible. (Mainly due to performance)