[gyaresu]

In terms of a modern day 'Wave' I don't understand why I had to find out about Slack https://slack.com/ from a Quartz article: http://qz.com/192948/slack-the-best-way-to-organize-your-bus...

[vertex-four]

There's a team of us who got gifted a Slack instance, as we're building on the released assets and partial source code of Tiny Speck's previous project (an MMO called Glitch). It's seriously amazing, supporting us as a volunteer group brilliantly, with full searchable logs, long-form "devlog" posts, inline images, and integration with the other systems we use.

I don't think it's got much to do with Wave at all, but it's seriously awesome for many use cases.

[jewel]

Slack is great, but it's not wave. It's an almost feature-for-feature clone of IRC.

[CiaranMcNulty]

Slack is IRC expanded, rather.

I actually use Slack via an IRC client sometimes and there are a lot of benefits.

[tootie]

Is Slack comparable to HipChat? Seems like it has more robust document sharing.

[shawndumas]

Slack is a better HipChat. msg formatting, code snippets, google hangout support, etc.

[alecthomas]

It's very similar, just slicker with, as you say, better document and snippet sharing.

[eknkc]

We use Slack, we absolutely love it (I can't emphasize this enough).

[mietek]

Why haven't I seen this before?! Awesome. Signed up.

[chermanowicz]

It really has nothing to do with Wave or a new communication protocol. Plus, there are dozens of tools with the same feature set as Slack.

[shawndumas]

love slack. we use it at work and it has great clients and great features; responsive devs too.