I run a large FOSS project; we use both Slack and IRC. Working with maintainers in 3 or 4 different timezones you can’t afford to lose your IRC session if you d

I run a large FOSS project; we use both Slack and IRC. Working with maintainers in 3 or 4 different timezones you can’t afford to lose your IRC session if you don’t want to miss messages. As pointed in the article however Slack is for teams, not communities. We use IRC for open discussions and keep internal discussions on Slack.