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teen on March 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, wil...

It's also used for video games a lot, but between leaking your IP and allowing esports players to get DDOSed, and just generally being not a great fit, Discord is getting more popular.

tomlongson on March 4, 2016 [–]

I hadn't heard about any data leaks from Slack, so I looked it up:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/8/6946341/slack-has-a-seriou...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/382mao/psa...

What's confusing is the second link is about Skype leaking your IP, not Slack.

avtar on March 4, 2016 | [–]

When I read teen's comment I thought they were implying that Skype is used by gamers and leaks info.

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