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Slack (and clones) allows multiline messages with some light markdown formatting, bold, italic, monospace inline, monospace block, quote block. Technical and no
by jrimbault 9y ago
Slack (and clones) allows multiline messages with some light markdown formatting, bold, italic, monospace inline, monospace block, quote block. Technical and non technical people can use it. Some non technical people may even learn some basic formatting.
IRC doesn't do all that, especially multiline messages.
Also, Slack has an IRC gateway.
- saurik 9y agoI don't understand how a multiline message in the Slack interface is any different from two single line messages. If the issue is you just want to type them at once and have them sent in one go, I agree with you, but clients for IRC definitely have had that feature. IRC also supports formatting like bold and italic: if you want the interface for that to be markdown, that sounds like a trivial addition to any standard IRC client.
- jrimbault 9y agoBut everyone in the team would have to set up their client. Not everyone would want to setup their client the same way (understandably). And not everyone is interested enough in setting up an IRC client, especially the "not technical enough people". IRC –the protocol– isn't made for that. IRC clients can, but don't.