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Try IRCCloud.

• moosingin3space 9y ago
  Which is a centralized, proprietary, web-based client. All three of which HN loves to hate Slack for.
  • isostatic 9y ago
    It does have a really easy way to extract your conversations as a log file though. An OSS version of irccloud you could just "apt-get install blahblah" with may have stemmed the rise of slack, at least in companies.
    • moosingin3space 9y ago
      I expect this niche will be filled by Matrix in the near future. Host a Matrix homeserver + Riot.im web UI, then employees can use Riot mobile apps and any Matrix-supporting client. For the record, I don't like Slack very much. I just disagree that IRC or IRCCloud are acceptable alternatives.
• zwily 9y ago
  IRCCloud was is its infancy when Slack came on the scene. If it had existed back then, maybe we wouldn’t have switched? I don’t know, but it’s way too late now. (I have never used it, and am just assuming the read state sync works as well as Slack, which may be a big assumption.)