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> Slack has a much higher barrier to entry than IRC and most people using it are private companies. Only if you're a nerd. Took me 5 minutes to get started wit
by photojosh 10y ago
> Slack has a much higher barrier to entry than IRC and most people using it are private companies.
Only if you're a nerd. Took me 5 minutes to get started with Slack for our company and managing it is a piece of cake.
Mind you, I haven't used IRC for a decade, maybe it's become a whole lot easier since then...
- milesrout 10y ago>Only if you're a nerd. Took me 5 minutes to get started with Slack for our company and managing it is a piece of cake. Slack requires you to make an account on their website, a new account for every Slack group. IRC you can just join - pick a nickname and type the server's address and you're in. IRC is completely trivially easy to use, Slack is not.
- ryanbrunner 10y agoSetting up an e-mail address and a password is not an incredibly complex task. I have 3 seperate slack groups that are set up just for friends to chat. Besides which, on most IRC servers, you're going to be using NickServ anyway, which is more complex a flow than setting up a user on Slack.
- milesrout 10y agoAlso, 'only if you're a nerd' is very silly. We're talking about this in the context of open source software. Everyone that is capable of non-trivially contributing to open source software is more than capable of operating an IRC client. In fact, if you can't work out IRC then you're almost certainly too silly to be a programmer.
- photojosh 10y agoYup, I completely forgot the context while I was writing my comment. You're right there. I was more thinking about it from the context where Slack provides so many more features over IRC, not just real-time chat.