[nottorp]

You must have not been around long :)

Slack is an improved irc and so is Discord now, in spite of it launching as a better and free teamspeak...

Slack has better support for people working together on something, Discord has better support for memes and emoji and stuff like that.

[alextingle]

My point is that Telegram does the same things, but is much, much more polished.

If I reply to a message on Telegram, the original message is summarised and linked. Slack starts a weird new "thread" which hides the subsequent conversation in a difficult to access backwater.

If I want to edit a published message on Telegram, it's right there in the context menu. On Slack I have to do a complicated dance... hover over the message so that a hamburger menu appears, click on the menu, then click on the edit option. Click-drag just doesn't work.

If I want to search through message history on Telegram I click the search icon, type my search term and there are my search results. On Slack, again it's hidden behind a different hamburger menu. More click-click-click, and eventually I see my results, obscuring the current conversation! But not all of the results are there, apparently you have to pay for that.

Reactions are hidden behind a clunky hover-click-click interface.

...I could go on and on. It all kind of works, but it feels unfinished, like it's a prototype that's been bashed out in a weekend. Or it feels like a clunky web-app a-la Discord.

[nottorp]

Threads are idiotic on slack, agreed. I just ignore them and manually snip the line i'm replying to, prefix it with > and write my reply below.

What do you do on Telegram when you want to post 2 pages of logs? Slack has this "text snippet" feature that can take a long text and post it collapsed by default, and whoever wants to see the details can expand it inline or save.

Can you pin a message to a Telegram channel, to have reference info handy?

Can you upload large files to Telegram and have them available 2 years later? (On the paid version of Slack).

Do you have a Telegram git or github integration plugin that will automatically notify about the commits in the project's channel?

They don't do the same things and your use case is not Slack's.

> Or it feels like a clunky web-app a-la Discord.

You're saying Telegram clients are native apps? I strongly doubt it :)