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> I have trouble believing that the majority of Slack users either have a direct public IP or a convenient way to conduct NAT traversal successfully.

Google's libjingle documentation[1] alludes to a statistic that says that "8% of connection attempts require an intermediary relay server".

This will obviously depend on the user demographic, I would guess that users on corporate connections are probably less likely to form successful p2p connections.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/talk/libjingle/important_conce...



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