I've used IRC a lot. For work and for projects. The experience is always horrible, and the clients always suck. We switched over to using slack for projects a

I've used IRC a lot. For work and for projects. The experience is always horrible, and the clients always suck. We switched over to using slack for projects and for work and everything got instantly better. It takes seconds to setup and destroy places to chat that are private. It also takes seconds to search your entire history, on any device, and find what you talked about 3 weeks ago. Sharing code that doesn't get removed is amazing. It's a pain in the ass when the IRC client removes code and tells you nothing. I've sent entire messages to people which "get blocked" because the message is too long or contains code, and it never gives feedback. I agree account creation in slack sucks though, and the author is correct that slack is not built for FOSS projects.