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Slack? The chat app that everyone has very strongly held opinions on? that slack?

It started as an MMO? I never knew this and have got to go read about it now, that IS an interesting pivot.



Not even the first time that happened.

Stewart Butterfield previously tried to make a game that eventually became flickr.


And discord was split off from a LoL-like game when it turned out to be the best part about it


It's fun to imagine what would happen if Stewart Butterfield was given the rights to Half-life 3...


IIRC some of the animated characters that show up with error messages are from the old game.


More on that here: https://mashable.com/article/slack-glitch

https://www.glitchthegame.com/


Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6O5QXj6n18




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