Yep. Slack is a pretty poor re-implementation of IRC, and I&#x27;m pretty bummed both my previous and my current company forced me to use it.<p>If we&#x27;re going to go this route, let&#x27;s at least use something not so patronizing and infantile, like HipChat.<p>And I&#x27;m pretty sick of all these &quot;Slack is going to change&#x2F;has changed THE WORLD!!!&quot; articles in general.