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> Chat apps are the posterchild of what happens when open standards (irc, jabber, xmpp,...) get replaced with walled gardens Slack is showing that the usefulne
by hota_mazi 9y ago
> Chat apps are the posterchild of what happens when open standards (irc, jabber, xmpp,...) get replaced with walled gardens
Slack is showing that the usefulness and popularity of a chat app has exactly 0% to do with whether it uses an open or closed protocol.
It's all about product design and user interface.
- digi_owl 9y agoAnd the more i read about Slack the less i want to touch it. Emoji, gifs, fuck off.
- Dylan16807 9y agoAnd the failing of the walled gardens is that you can't choose the product design and user interface you want and use it to talk to everyone.
- seba_dos1 9y agoSlack provides IRC relay, which initially was almost feature complete, but got out of date with time. Anyway, in some time Slack will probably fade away as quickly as it appeared, further contributing to the problem grandparent noticed and you seem to misunderstand.