Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
Now a new tool with which you can fill the remaining % of your day which isnt in some "social" sphere already.  Im glad there is competition for Slack, just as glad that this is coming from a ISV of developer tools so maybe it will be something that is slanted in favor of things that developers, product managers(me) and delivery teams need such as answers get tagged and go to knowledge base, can send check in/out commands for bots to use, etc without having to make the bot ourselves.On the usage  of chat Im lucky that 2500 of my colleagues are not in the same timezone, and the ones that are, are already too busy to spend time talking about it.  So i dont have a constant torrent of activity to respond to.  Internally we use Yammer, and like email, it allows me to attend to it and get involved at the time and duration of my choosing. Bottom line how such systems get used is a matter of your preferred work style, corporate culture, and market needs.And you have commend Atlassian for coming up with a name that is indicative (to me anyway) of impact the product should have.  "Stride" suggest big steps, not baby steps. Its walking with purpose, cadence, and at speed.  Their other product "hipster" suggests completely the obvious i.e. react viscerally ('quantitative gut feel'), follow trends ('follow the crowd not your own intelligence'), bleeding edge, oh....and you may need to grow a beard and use a satchel and rider a fixie in order to use it properly.