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This resonates with me more easily than the tone of the OP. Slack is a very good tool. For some reason, bashing it is all the rage now, but most of the criticism is misplaced and unsubstantial. FWIW, I use Slack even though I work alone, just because the integration with various 3rd parties makes it a fantastic notifications hub (which I can silence/relay/amplify at will).

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Hah, but I am the op :-) I didn't want it to come out negative. I don't think my critique is unsubstantial though. Essentially we switched Slack with Basecamp, which also offers a chat part, so you can replicate the same behavior, but it also offers other means to communicate. Slack in this case was just the chat tool we used, I think the problem is with chat as primary company communication, independent of vendor.

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