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Agreed. I have never had as good of an experience with IRC or XMPP as I have with slack. Open protocols are still great for open communities, internet discussio

Agreed. I have never had as good of an experience with IRC or XMPP as I have with slack. Open protocols are still great for open communities, internet discussion boards, etc. but when you're a multi-billion dollar messaging platform and companies are using you for critical communication I don't see any reason to continue supporting them. They've actually gone a step further and put the accessibility features in slack and upgraded their api to support things people used to do on the irc channels.

kuschku 9y ago
IRC is right now standardizing reactions and threads. As I linked elsewhere in this thread, IRCCloud now runs their own slack gateway for their users, with support for all of it: https://twitter.com/irccloud/status/971416931373854721?s=21 https://twitter.com/irccloud/status/971416931373854721?s=21 It's absolutely possible to provide all this in open protocols, and even in a reasonable timeframe.
saagarjha 9y ago
> I have never had as good of an experience with IRC or XMPP as I have with slack. Interestingly, I've felt the opposite way. Slack will often lose connection, fail to send messages, or fail to refresh and fetch new messages (ones I know exist, because I was sent a notification for them). IRC and XMPP don't seem to do this.