What I don't get about Slack or any other 'chat as a service' system is why tech companies would willingly backdoor themselves with a surveillance system to harvest all their most private in-house discussions.
All those chat logs must be worth quite a bit to the right buyers.
@natecull It's different to mail as a service or cloud document storage or private cloud code repos how?
Server run by the main developers of the project 
It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct!
@natecull Yeah, sorry, wrong choice of words. Should have used something like "non-public".