Look under the hood sometime and witness the lovecraftian horror. You can enable the electron dev console via env var. Everything from how they layout the page, to the underlying structure for messages and threads (and how they are accessed) is super complex.

IMHO it's expensive and not at all better than IRC, plus it helps kill IRC which was a core part of the public internet, open source culture, etc.

I also find it annoying that the creators of slack pretend they invented something original.

Sounds like a good product if people are willing to pay so much for it...

I think it was a fad that caught on among people who had been writing code for a few weeks.

I find it super expensive if you want to have the history.

To me, lack of history is a feature, not a bug.

Document your shit in proper places.