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I still try to understand what Slack is that IRC isn't. At the moment I'm in the "someone managed to make money out of copying IRC"-phase including copying all
by sgift 11y ago
I still try to understand what Slack is that IRC isn't. At the moment I'm in the "someone managed to make money out of copying IRC"-phase including copying all the problems/pain points of IRC according to this article and comments here so far (highlighting, channel inflation, multiple conversations in one channel at the same time overlap ..) - what do I miss?
- SunShiranui 11y agoI don't use Slack, but perhaps people prefer its UX?
- Morgawr 11y agoIRC is a protocol, it has nothing to do with UX... You can tack IRC on top of a pretty client and you can get pretty similar results I'd assume. DISCLAIMER: I never used Slack.
- Robin_Message 11y agoUX != UI Simple example: with Slack (or another hosted, web-based chat app), I can invite the non-technical head of sales to join it via e-mail, and they can. They literally cannot install an IRC client. I can get similar results, but "I" isn't enough for a communication tool to be useful.
- Morgawr 11y agoWhy can't you do it through the web interface of a company-backed IRC network? There's literally no difference there, IRC is just a protocol, you can still wrap around your own local stack with registration, email notification, fancy UI (I know UI != UX) and auto-invite system or whatnot. I just don't get it...
- paulddraper 11y ago"you can still wrap around your own local stack with registration, email notification, fancy UI (I know UI != UX) and auto-invite system or whatnot" Or pay someone to do that and maintain it for you.
- Freak_NL 11y agoAccessibility for non-technical users, and formatting. In MatterMost (a very nice self-hosted Slack alternative) the integrated MarkDown-support means that sharing code and more extensive reports can be done with a helpful amount of formatting. I much rather read the ten lines of code a colleague is asking me about with code highlighting than without, and a summary of a colleague's visit to a customer reads a lot more pleasant with headings than without. Also, emoji. Not something most of us on HN would miss, but a lot of the non-technical users seem to appreciate being able to nuance messages with them.