• Slack
  • It would be nice if Slack conversations could be easily cropped, reordered, edited, and cleaned up.
  • Permalink.] to each statement in the chat.
  • But I don’t see that happening with Slack today.
    • single-function orientation So? No, no.
    • Known to be a flow-specific tool and users need a separate stock
      • Then it makes sense to prepare an API to retrieve data or add a mechanism to automatically send the data to an external service via Webhook.
        • Useful to increase [interoperability
    • And yet, only the API and webhooks that get information into Slack are enhanced, not the ones that get information out.
    • Their business model is that if it’s free, you can’t go back beyond a certain amount, and if you want to go back, you have to pay for a paid plan.
      • Strategies to hold information hostage and cause lock-in
  • Mattermost
    • Open Slack clone

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