The future of Slack is that they&#x27;ll do what every other chat application has done in the past 2 decades: they keep &quot;innovating&quot; on a solved problem, add &quot;features&quot; that get in people&#x27;s way to the point that it becomes unusable and people switch to the new &quot;disrupting chat technology&quot;. It happened to HipChat before Slack and I doubt Slack will break the cycle.<p>Given that I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll be looking to Slack as &quot;the future of UI&quot;.