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by ciarannolan 2023 days ago
> So welcome, Microsoft, to the revolution. We’re glad you’re going to be helping us define this new product category. We admire many of your achievements and know you’ll be a worthy competitor. We’re sure you’re going to come up with a couple of new ideas on your own too. And we’ll be right there, ready.

This whole thing is dripping with condescension and ego. It reads like a nasty letter written to an ex-girlfriend about how you're super successful now and gee I'm glad you're doing well too. Yuck.

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I'm not a fan of Slack's writing style at all. They just sound like assholes.

This is my favourite post demonstrating just how awful their 'voice' is: https://api.slack.com/changelog/2017-09-the-one-about-userna...

They come across as egregiously sardonic. I feel that same voice was evident with the whole fuss around their shitty WYSIWYG addition before they gave in and allowed you to turn it off.