The client allows people to see all of their Slack teams in one interface. People are joining multiple Slack teams: they’ll have one for their running club, one for their local startup scene, one for their coworking office, etc. For users with two monitors, the Slack app is running in one of their displays for most of the day.

It allows a user to be signed into all of their Slack teams at once.Įven though Slack is a web application, most people run it in the desktop client.

There are two elements to pay attention to here: So why did our members want us to switch? The answer to that question is in this screenshot:

Both applications are web based, have an interface inspired by IRC, feature useful integrations, and support emojis. Functionally, Slack and Kato are very similar. The reason our members wanted to switch wasn’t because of features. We’d started with Kato because it was free, but members soon started to complain:

My coworking office recently had to decide which group chat application we were going to use.

Slack web chat