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IRC kind of sucks. The experience is worse. That's why people keep making these different tools - Campfire, HipChat, Slack. It's not just a technical thing. It
by programminggeek 11y ago
IRC kind of sucks. The experience is worse. That's why people keep making these different tools - Campfire, HipChat, Slack.
It's not just a technical thing. It's an experience thing. IRC is technically fine, just way too nerdy to be main line of business software these days.
- aeharding 11y agoBusinesses with nontechnical employees vs FOSS teams is the distinction. Use Slack or whatever for your business if it works for you.
- chris_wot 11y agoSo what you are saying is that the client software is not intuitive. You do know that all that needs to occur is to make a nice client?
- pmlnr 11y agoThere is nothing wrong with IRC. The IRC clients, you're talking about, are a bit tricky, indeed. Someone should come up with an IRC client for the non technologically advanced instead of reinventing the wheel.
- tyfon 11y agoTwitch.tv is using IRC in their main line of business (their chat). It seems to work fine for them and it is easy to write custom bots etc for it as it is based on an open protocol.