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The 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
by zanny 9y ago
The 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.