Been almost eight years since I used Slack regularly and I have to say I’m impressed with several of the changes that bring it up to par with Discord for some things and better in others.
Slack has threads off of any message. This creates amazing opportunities for side conversations that do not impact the main thread. I cannot overstate how much I wish Discord did this. In fact, this is such an important thing that I would consider switching everything to Slack just for this reason alone.
Slack still has a better integration API. I’ve only casually looked at it, but so many enterprises are integrating plugins for different things Slack has them all using a command-line interface without a terminal and not even realizing it.
Slack formatting is still horrible. The single star around something is still bold (even though that is against Markdown). And there is still no language detection at all with the triple backtick. I swear, if I get another three pages of unreadable code in a Slack message instead of a Gist or link to anything else Imma go postal on someone.