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In terms of a modern day 'Wave' I don't understand why I had to find out about Slack https://slack.com/ from a Quartz article: http://qz.com/192948/slack-the-best-way-to-organize-your-bus...

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There's a team of us who got gifted a Slack instance, as we're building on the released assets and partial source code of Tiny Speck's previous project (an MMO called Glitch). It's seriously amazing, supporting us as a volunteer group brilliantly, with full searchable logs, long-form "devlog" posts, inline images, and integration with the other systems we use.

I don't think it's got much to do with Wave at all, but it's seriously awesome for many use cases.

Slack is great, but it's not wave. It's an almost feature-for-feature clone of IRC.

Slack is IRC expanded, rather.

I actually use Slack via an IRC client sometimes and there are a lot of benefits.

Is Slack comparable to HipChat? Seems like it has more robust document sharing.

It's very similar, just slicker with, as you say, better document and snippet sharing.

Slack is a better HipChat. msg formatting, code snippets, google hangout support, etc.

We use Slack, we absolutely love it (I can't emphasize this enough).

Why haven't I seen this before?! Awesome. Signed up.

It really has nothing to do with Wave or a new communication protocol. Plus, there are dozens of tools with the same feature set as Slack.

love slack. we use it at work and it has great clients and great features; responsive devs too.

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