[RussianCow]

I don't disagree with you, but in what way do you think Discord will "disrupt" Slack with regards to collaboration?

[astrodust]

Discord's a compelling alternative, but it's just another flavour of same. If you want distributed you need something more like IRC or at least federated XMPP.

[RussianCow]

I don't think making it distributed solves the productivity problem, though.