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It's sad, I agree. But IRC is such a pain for most people to deal with it's never going to reach a mass audience in its current form. Whereas Slack is dead-simp
by skywhopper 10y ago
It's sad, I agree. But IRC is such a pain for most people to deal with it's never going to reach a mass audience in its current form. Whereas Slack is dead-simple easy to use and no one has trouble understanding how to use it. If you want to save IRC, then we need to make it usable by everyone.
- silencio 10y agoPlus it's not like IRC itself isn't also a SPOF in a different way. I've had [private] servers go down, netsplits and connectivity issues on freenode effectively hindering communication... And all of the things that people use to make IRC more bearable are problems in their own right. Imagine a vulnerability with the znc bouncer? Tons and tons of people compromised right there. irccloud down? Oops. and so on.
- rocky1138 10y agoCan't we make it better? Can't we write an IRC protocol upgrade, server, and client that does the same thing that Slack beats IRC with? Namely, archived chats and in-chat images.