[hota_mazi]

> Chat apps are the posterchild of what happens when open standards (irc, jabber, xmpp,...) get replaced with walled gardens

Slack is showing that the usefulness and popularity of a chat app has exactly 0% to do with whether it uses an open or closed protocol.

It's all about product design and user interface.

[Dylan16807]

And the failing of the walled gardens is that you can't choose the product design and user interface you want and use it to talk to everyone.

[seba_dos1]

Slack provides IRC relay, which initially was almost feature complete, but got out of date with time.

Anyway, in some time Slack will probably fade away as quickly as it appeared, further contributing to the problem grandparent noticed and you seem to misunderstand.

[digi_owl]

And the more i read about Slack the less i want to touch it.

Emoji, gifs, fuck off.