Hipchat had no problems so we went ahead and created a new slack clone from scratch ~ Atlassian 2017

👋 Hey Hunters! Cameron from the Atlassian Stride team here. @nick beat me to posting. Quick hunting, sir! Stride is the complete communication solution that empowers teams to talk less and do more. It's everything you need to stay connected and keep moving. Let's hit the highlights: *Express yourself with a kickass messaging experience* The foundation of a strong communications tool today is a strong messaging tool. We've built a lightweight, powerful, messaging experience to help you and your team communicate effectively. It starts with putting your ideas into words, and our full-featured editor provides you the tools you need – text formatting, code markdown, files and links, previews, and of course message editing. But sending messages is only half of it, you have full control over what messages you are notified about so you keep track of what matters, and our powerful Search makes sure you can always find what you need. *Connect to anyone, anywhere with Meetings* The easiest way to talk face-to-face with your teammates is just a click (or tap!) away. Jump into an impromptu video meeting and add your coworkers by name, dial out, or share a link. Share your screen to show off your latest genius, or grant a teammate control of your desktop when you can't figure out how to configure your company's VPN. *Move things forward with integrated Actions and Decisions* Isolate important follow-ups by marking any message as an Action or Decision, or create one of your own to summarize a longer discussion. Rather than getting buried in your message history, Actions and Decisions live neatly in your sidebar, accessible any time — it’s like having a built in TL;DR for every conversation! *Turn down distractions with Focus Mode* Focus Mode makes it simple to step away from the action of the workday and dive into deep work. With one click, Focus Mode mutes notifications and incoming messages and lets your team know you’re heads down on that important project. Most of this is FREE for all teams – including Stride's Video Meetings. Our paid tier is just $3 / User / Month – less than your morning latte, and far less than the combined cost of what three different products might be (smile) We’re stoked to finally get to share what we’ve been working so hard on for you, our users, and this is just the beginning for Stride — expect to see a lot from us in the coming months! I’ll be sticking around to answer any questions from y’all. – Cameron PS You can sign up for our early access program here: https://www.stride.com

Gotta love Atlassian's design and illustration - wow, that landing page!

Slack apps suck performance wise. expecting Atlassian to do a better job there.

Pros:

way cheaper than slack, slightly better features (to-dos , decisions)

Cons:

Yet another slack clone.

Lovely design

The switching cost would be too high for us, especially as we'd lose the integrations we enjoy in Slack. This looks like a good alternative for remote teams though, especially as messages can become Actions and Decisions.

Is this a native Mac app or another chat client that's just wrapping a webview?

Pretty good TheVerge review: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/... ✌️

Now I can forget about Skype, right? :) yeah!

Congrats @cameronsavage and the team! Just in time for Summit as well (which I'm super excited for - my first ever Atlassian Summit)! Cannot wait to get my hands on this to test it out - am hoping for seemless integration with other Atlassian products (mainly Service Desk + StatusPage) 😻

I can't seem to find any screenshots that show off their thread / reply feature. Am I missing it somehow? It is supposed to be that "branch crooked arrow" button? This doesn't seem to solve the problem of everyone's first instinct of "post directly to chat to everyone for everything" and the endless barrage of noise and notifications.

hipchat.com redirects to stride.com, so I'm guessing this is a full on replacement? Regardless, congrats on the launch!! I'm a huge fan of the Atlassian suite.

I really think the Decisions feature is interesting. Seems like a good way to conclude on a chat discussion. I

Why do talented and funded teams create something that already exists?

Congrats @cameronsavage and the entire Atlassian team. Really excited to try this out when it's ready. I particularly love the focus on helping you take action on the conversations you are having in Stride with decisions and action items. Kudos and best of luck with the roll-out!

Why not improving hipchat instead of going off a tangent and releasing a totally different product?

Pros:

A good idea

Cons:

why not improving hipchat instead

My team had access to the platform before launch and I have to say communication has very much improved. Using Stand.Bot (an integration) allows us to never forget process and automatically asks for updates.

Great use of the available space.

Pros:

Nice UX. Marketplace is getting ready with some great integrations like bots to automate processes.

Cons:

Not sure yet.

The "integrated Actions and Decisions" piece sounds promising. Slack threads tend to get very diffuse. If Stride can force and record decisions, that would be a nice improvement.

Tasks is really helpful. One of my frustrations with Slack is that it's easy to forget what you commit to in there.

Really liked HipChat but was not as easy to use as Slack. Can't wait to try out Stride, this is the best news I could have hoped for from HipChat improvements.