[saas_co_de]

yes. small scale is almost always simpler and less error prone than massive scale.

slack also has pretty dubious quality standards. e.g. their desktop app and their atrocious replacement for screenhero.

[nojvek]

The biggest benefit of slack for me is their search. All messages are indexed ready to be searched. Code snippets, images, giphy, attachments, bots. It’s a whole ecosystem, not easily replicable with irc.