I was not aware of the « HipChat rewrite » but we used it in my previous company and it was Ok. One day a colleague told the team about Slack; I was skeptical. So 4 people gave it a shot for a few days/weeks (including me). The result was that, except the built-in bot to show random Gifs, Slack was superior for our use case in all aspects and we eventually switched everyone over, and all were happy.
This was 4 or 5 years ago. Now in my current company we also use Slack. It’s good, but not great either. Mostly because the UI is super slow when running in my desktop browser (Cliqz, Firefox-based). But it’s still better than Teams in my experience (I did not try the other alternatives).
This was 4 or 5 years ago. Now in my current company we also use Slack. It’s good, but not great either. Mostly because the UI is super slow when running in my desktop browser (Cliqz, Firefox-based). But it’s still better than Teams in my experience (I did not try the other alternatives).