January 10, 2016 at 01:53PM
"[T]here is a danger that Slack will go away, will have to pivot into something horrible" #readingToday

[T]here is a danger that Slack will go away, that Slack will have to pivot into something horrible like many other community tools have. It is a commercial product that isn't open, meaning it can not easily be salvaged or forked should it go pear shaped. And it isn't as accessible as IRC is.

When I joined my current company last year, we introduced Slack as the tool to communicate with each other. Of course we…