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Riot is now Element

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550 points J_tt | 2 comments | 15 Jul 20 07:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.417s | source
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x87678r ◴[15 Jul 20 12:27 UTC] No.23844181[source]▶
I still dont understand why Slack is popular when there is a free open source solution matrix/riot/element that works just as well.
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1. mritchie712 ◴[15 Jul 20 12:46 UTC] No.23844384[source]▶
Sales and marketing. Also, the cost of Slack is insignificant to most companies and most others start by using the free tier, so the price isn't even a consideration.

The open source selling point is also irrelevant to most people outside of HN.

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2. J_tt ◴[15 Jul 20 13:51 UTC] No.23845194[source]▶
Stress on most in that, I found out about the name change due to actively rolling it out to replace slack.

Charging that sort of price for just chat felt wrong, so we transitioned to keep message history.