Before slack i used third party platforms to send me notifications to MSN, later Skype then some strange chat app i don't exactly remember. Now i can simply use the webhook with a simple post request to send notifications to a central place where i can consume them as i need/want to. I used IRC for while but thats drains to much battery on a smartphone, i also tried XMPP but, while its awesome for what it is, it is a pain to manage and setup, especially just for passing messages, mostly one way.

The are several nice reasons to use or not use slack, but this is my personal reason why i have a slack all for myself.

Problem is, 99% of it is crap.

Slack is okay and there are some really good bots for it.

But everyone jumps on that train and so for every good integration there are 20 bad ones, that spam your channel with stuff no one needs to know :\

Takes a bit time to find the good things.