This article fusses about how big mean slack took advantage of people by providing a free service and then dropping support for a protocol. I think Twitter’s tr

This article fusses about how big mean slack took advantage of people by providing a free service and then dropping support for a protocol. I think Twitter’s treatment of developers perpetuated a David-v-Goliath storyline in which developers inevitably get short shrift while corporations take the profits. But this is different. Slack is a business and they’re making a business decision. I’ve never heard them imply that IRC would be a core part of their business. The vast majority of their user base has never even heard of IRC. It doesn’t make sense for them to spend money to support a feature used by 0.5% of their users. If IRC support is so important, build a business that supports IRC and get people to pay for it. Until then, can we stop acting like the mean boy on the playground stole our lunch?