Google's new messaging direction

Appaz, Google is going after Slack and changing its entire messaging direction (which we all know has been rubbish so far): http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/9/14864552/google-hangouts-chat-update-announced-slack-group-messaging-video

Should Slack be tensioned right now?

They should just acquire Slack and let us rest.

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Random fact: I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, screaming in terror, gripping the sheets, drenched in sweat, remembering those times I thought I sent an important update to a client via Google Hangouts but for some reason the message(s) disappeared into a quantum singularity.

I’m saying the same thing lordbanks said, only longer (and with a little more ‘quantum singularity’.)

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Slack doesn’t really have anything to fear. They just need to keep giving it :100:

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There’s something about Slack I still find annoying: the fact that messages can fail to deliver. If they can fix it so messages are held until network returns (like, idk, every IM service on earth), that would be mighty nice.

I haven’t experienced this problem. When connectivity is being a problem, the messages simply don’t go through.

That is exactly what I’m talking about. When connectivity returns, the messages should go through without my having to select ‘retry’.

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Nice, I will pass this to the slack team directly