the actual business logic that's holding you back
If the reasons for choosing Slack instead of Discord are business reasons, the choice is not holding a business back. If a choice is not holding a business back, then that's the very obvious reason.
We’re implementing Discord for our community actually.
Right now Instagram is our Bread and butter for communicating with the community but there are limits.
Truthfully, I want to migrate more Folks to Fediverse
1. Slack has network effects: we connect with customers on Slack (or M$ Teams for enterprise…)
2. I don’t want to innovate on “back office”. Slack works, is sufficiently affordable, and costs no social credit with employees.
3. I know I won’t run into problems in the future. This kinda ties into (2), I don’t want to innovate on back office, but to make it concrete: Deel, Rippling and the other M$ AD clones all integrate with Slack to set up permissions and SSO with zero effort.
4. Slack has lots of sensitive info about us and pur customers, which makes it SOC-2 relevant. I want to use “industry standard” tech for anything compliance related. Though I don’t recall that this would have ever been a problem on security questionnaires, and not many years ago Slack was the “young kid on the block” themselves & managed, so idk if this is actually a valid point.
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If you give me a feature parity clone of slack for half the price, I’d certainly switch, but anything less than feature parity and I probably wouldn’t. I don’t need to or want to take risks on internal tooling.