why is it so hard to convince people to start using slack chat and giving up sending internal emails?

Change is hard. People will go to great lengths to keep things the same. Running into this with our ops team now.

Two different tools. Can be used independently or together.

@cesc1989 besides external emails pretty much anything can be done exclusively through slack. Not just for the sake of doing but because it's more efficient

Slack costs money if you really want to do something serious. Email - doesn't.

@shasha not disagreeing, but like what?

And email isn't free either, the only difference being that you probably need to be paying for email anyway.

@shasha and it's not like you can do all the fancy stuff in email anyway

@heyheni because some people are programmed to resist change

I was just comparing. I use slack at work but a free version. I dislike that but for now it won't change. So if you have more than 10 000 messages then no search for you. Mail is cheaper anyway. Do I like slack? Yes, of course. Is it practical? Yes, if your company decides to pay for it.

Hipchat

the only thing I don't like about slack is it makes me feel I can not switch organizations easily