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Comment by benjamincburns | Hacker News Reader

It may look like it, but this isn't the Slack (team chat sold at slack.com) you're thinking of.

Top post on there right now:

    A quick note from Jeff Morris Jr. (founder of Slack Chats):
    Slack Chats was created to help you meet interesting new people.
    We are not created by, affiliated with, or supported by Slack
    Technologies, Inc. Thanks for your awesome support! :)

I smell a rebranding coming. If it wasn't for that post I would've assumed this was something from Slack Technologies. Even the logo is so similar...

Worse yet, this is building negative brand recognition for Slack Technologies at the moment, as the UI polish isn't what we'd expect from the Slack team, and their page isn't keeping up w/ HN traffic.

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I think you are misunderstanding something. No, this isn't from Slack but it is about Slack. Your comments in this thread make it look like you think this has nothing to do with Slack.

Yep. I'd expect them to receive a cease & desist letter within the day. The real Slack doesn't have a choice if they wish to protect their trademark.

Sure they have; they can explicitly authorize it.

Assuming Slack has some interest in preventing user confusion, that may not be a viable option.

Hey Guys,

Jeff Morris Jr. here (founder of Slack Chats).

I've spoken with the Slack Team and they are big fans of this product. In fact, I've had several team members email me to thank me for building this product.

I included the note as the top post to clearly state that this isn't an official Slack product.

The site drives traffic to Slack and I do not make a single dollar off of it (despite many offers from advertisers).

Hope this helps!

Jeff

How do you reconcile the comments you have received with the company's very recent public statement that "these communities are not something we have the capacity to support given the growth in our existing business."? [1]

[1] http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/03/24/slack-is-quietly-un...

Good question. As I understand it, their ability to "support" these communities is more about building out these communities internally and allocating technical resources to non-enterprise channels.

Again, I am not an employee of Slack and do not want to speculate but that's my best guess.

It is pretty clear this is just an aggregation of public Slack channels. I don't think they will have to change their name.

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