[cwp]

The thing that I find really pleasant about Slack is that it syncs state between multiple clients really well. If I get a direct message and read it on my phone, my desktop client doesn't show it as unread. It doesn't send push notifications to my phone when I've got the desktop client open. It seems to strike a good balance between getting my attention for stuff that matters and letting me ignore stuff that doesn't.

Other group chats I've used don't do this as well. Skype is particularly awful in this regard.

[chambo622]

For the most part, this is true, but they don't have it working quite right on Android. Opening the app from the launcher doesn't clear active notifications as it would if you launch the app by clicking on the notification. I've also gotten into a broken state where it tried to open one #channel in the wrong organization and just gave up until I quit the app and tried again.

Hopefully with this new money they can invest a bit more in their Android development efforts.

[servercobra]

That's one of the main shortfalls I find in IRC as well. If it weren't for that (and basically requiring a bouncer/remote tmux session), I'd probably stick to IRC for quite a bit longer.

[baddox]

My experience is quite the opposite. I frequently get push notifications to my phone 15 minutes after reading and replying to PMs on my OS X native client.