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Reminder: IRC works on literally everything, uses kilobytes rather than gigabytes of RAM, and is a widly supported open protocol with many competing implementat
by Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
Reminder: IRC works on literally everything, uses kilobytes rather than gigabytes of RAM, and is a widly supported open protocol with many competing implementations.
- lostmsu 9y agoDoes it have push notifications and mobile client with full text search across the public/company wide chat history with access control?
- michaelmrose 9y agoThere is also email and mailing lists which have those things. IRC can also have public logging and full text search in a universal client called a web browser.
- lostmsu 9y agoMailing lists on their own do not provide ACLs, and the only way to read existing private topic is for somebody to forward you all the messages. Are there existing nodes, that do that automatically for you?
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoYep.
- lostmsu 9y agoYeah? What is the client and the server?
- mixedCase 9y agoAnd just to prevent the inevitable allow me to add: "...and that is trivial to set-up and use for most people".
- DaiPlusPlus 9y agoIRC DCC doesn’t work behind a NAT. No voice, video or screen-sharing. No message search feature. Advocating IRC over Slack is analogous to arguing we should be using Gopher instead of WWW because of ActiveX.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoYou can use other tools for those features, why do you need a single one? The other ones do it better than Slack, too. Focusing on a single idea and polishing it to a mirror shine is better than a single monolithic product which does everything poorly.
- skykooler 9y ago> No message search feature. Most IRC clients have message search built in.
- userbinator 9y agoIRC can also be hosted locally --- so using it to communicate with your coworkers in the same building does not involve sending data out far away into the Internet first, nor does it fail if the Internet connection goes down for whatever reason.