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Moral of the story: Hipchat and Slack are, well, ahem, hip but when push comes to shove, IRC is where it is. Somewhat it reminds of me CLI vs GUI...
by chx 11y ago
Moral of the story: Hipchat and Slack are, well, ahem, hip but when push comes to shove, IRC is where it is. Somewhat it reminds of me CLI vs GUI...
- mstade 11y agoSure, I was thinking of the JIRA+GHE setup as well though. As for IRC – they also use some weird clients (actually, might be the same one everwhere, just rebranded) to hide away the fact that it's IRC. Some people I know would just use Irssi or whatever. I'm guessing the fact that IRC is used is that it's reliable, simple to set up, and works for a rather large audience even without any redundancy. Most extra functionality that the Slack etc. provide – integrations, notifications embedding things – are not really necessary (but possibly wanted) in that context. E-mail still reigns supreme for anything that can't fit in simple text, and certainly for more formal comms and sign-offs.