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Is there a specific list of IRC's deficiencies somewhere? Could we start on an IETF draft to address some of those rather than throw our hands in the air and bu
by synack 9y ago
Is there a specific list of IRC's deficiencies somewhere? Could we start on an IETF draft to address some of those rather than throw our hands in the air and build yet another walled garden?
- dwc 9y agoOne potential problem with that is that for many IRC users, many of the "deficiencies" either don't matter or are bonuses. Also, see https://ircv3.net/irc/ https://ircv3.net/irc/
- WimLeers 9y agohttps://ircv3.net https://ircv3.net
- shiado 9y agoWell for starters IRC doesn't let you keep your hands warm when somebody posts a giphy and your system resource usage goes up to crypto mining levels.
- paganel 9y agoI don't rely on slack at work (we use mostly emails and some skype), I'm also part of a small-ish team, so I have to ask: do people in bigger-ish teams really send gif after animated gif in their work-related slack conversations? And if the answer is "yes", what does that help accomplish?
- nikanj 9y agoThe more your work chat resembles an attention-addiction-skinner-box social media, the higher engagement numbers it gets. It's relatively easy to see how these engagement numbers can be leveraged as a sales tool.
- jldugger 9y ago1. Yes, they do. We even have a bot to post the top giphy result for a search query. 2. It's absoletely as assinine and distracting as you imagine.
- zanny 9y agoThe matrix protocol has already emerged as a successor to IRC that maintains backwards compatibility. It has room encryption, voice and video, and it bridges to almost every chat service in existence (including Slack, at least until now).
- cyphar 9y agoMatrix isn't backwards-compatible to IRC, it has bridges for IRC. Also I believe the Slack bridge uses the Slack API (not the IRC gateway) so it should still work when Slack kills the IRC gateway. But yes, Matrix is quite amazing.