Chat has a great place in projects. I think it needs to be a complementary environment, rather than the core one. Slack is weird in that you access this whole different environment just for the chat, so I think it leads you to wanting to do too much with it. Also, Slack as a company doesn't really seem to have an interest in serving this community. Gitter is better in this regard, but still not really a "full solution". Gitter was acquired by GitLab, so it will be interesting to see what they might do with it.
Yeah, Slack seems like overkill for chat, period. We use Atlassian's products at my job, so we're all in on Jira/Bitbucket/HipChat, and the combination of the three is really excellent.
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Chat has a great place in projects. I think it needs to be a complementary environment, rather than the core one. Slack is weird in that you access this whole different environment just for the chat, so I think it leads you to wanting to do too much with it. Also, Slack as a company doesn't really seem to have an interest in serving this community. Gitter is better in this regard, but still not really a "full solution". Gitter was acquired by GitLab, so it will be interesting to see what they might do with it.
Yeah, Slack seems like overkill for chat, period. We use Atlassian's products at my job, so we're all in on Jira/Bitbucket/HipChat, and the combination of the three is really excellent.