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Isn't another huge thing that Slack solves the need to set up a local client? Why is that not addressed in this article, I wonder if the author really doesn't s

by polarix 11y ago

Isn't another huge thing that Slack solves the need to set up a local client? Why is that not addressed in this article, I wonder if the author really doesn't see it as a problem?

pmx 11y ago
There are lots of web-based IRC clients out there
- d0m 11y ago
  Which is part of the problem. People don't want "a lot of web-based IRC clients", they want only one and it has to be amazing.
  - chris_wot 11y ago
    The things slack can do (at least according to this article) that IRC can't are do small it's negligible. If slack is web-based, then what is to stop someone from making a web-based IRC client with all the features and good UX design of slack?
    - hbosch 11y ago
      And there is: http://shout-irc.com http://shout-irc.com IMO Shout is a UI improvement over Slack for the sheer fact that it is 100% customizable.
      - chris_wot 11y ago
        You realise you just increased traffic on their demo by like 1000%? :-) Pretty nice though.
      - giis 11y ago
        shout-irc looks good. do they have persistent logs?
    - mcphage 11y ago
      > what is to stop someone from making a web-based IRC client with all the features and good UX design of slack? Absolutely nothing. Nothing has stopped anyone from making a fully featured IRC client with good UX. Yet there still isn't one.