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> Can someone explain the attraction that nerds have for Slack/Hipchat over a well-tended IRC server? 1. Nerds (like me) have to talk to non-nerds. 2. Nerds (
by balls187 11y ago
> Can someone explain the attraction that nerds have for Slack/Hipchat over a well-tended IRC server?
1. Nerds (like me) have to talk to non-nerds.
2. Nerds (unlike me, but not unlike my wife) aren't interested in complex solutions to simple problems.
And frankly, who is the "tender" of the "well-tended" IRC server? I don't want to maintain it.
My wife and I used slack as the primary means with which we communicate for "couple stuff." We've used it to: Plan our Wedding Ceremony. Plan our Wedding Party. Plan our Honeymoon. Plan for our first child. Plan our next house purchase. Manage our Finances. Plan Dates. Plan our Meals. Archive Recipes.
There would be no way my wife (a nerd) and I (a different type of nerd) could do this on IRC.
- lfowles 11y agoInteresting, because my wife (non-tech, but still nerdy EE) and I communicate a lot via IRC! I've never used Slack, but my assumption is that it's ephemeral messaging at the core. Could you expand on how you archive recipes? I should probably expand that IRC for us is pretty stateful, since we both run our own irssi instances in screen on a VPS.
- allannienhuis 11y agoSlack's design is exactly the opposite of ephemeral. Everything you post, including documents, is indexed and searchable.
- lfowles 11y agoOk, that makes more sense. I had something like Skype in mind... in theory I have my entire Skype history, but going back more than 100 lines or so is cumbersome. I'd rather teach my wife how to grep logs than to deal with that.
- balls187 11y agoAh, we just have a channel called "recipes" which we post links to. Search works pretty well to find them. Admission: my wife is pregnant, so she really only wants me to make one thing. http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/corn-and-lobster-chowder-107469 http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/corn-and-lobste...
- voltagex_ 11y agoIs the archive permanent or is it going to fall off the end of the earth? It sounds like a great replacement for PushBullet+Hangouts+Email.
- balls187 11y agoFor free accounts, I believe only the latest 10k messages are searchable. For $6 pp/month you can fully searchable unlimited messages. Also Slack gives you $25 in credit for each person you add.