I also think meta's workchat was better than slack. Maybe its because at my new company slack has to play the role of both workplace and workchat whereas at meta they have two separate things for that.
Moving to a company using a hodgepodge of constantly rotating SaaS tools has been hell. I’m always thinking to myself “why can’t they just do this?”. I think I’ve been both spoiled and broken permanently.
On the other hand, building all these connections between the disparate apps is basically my job, so it’s got its positives.