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> I've shown IRC to people who love Slack and I usually get "Ugh, it looks so old fashioned and difficult to use" as a reaction. This is the exact reason why I
by Jaruzel 9y ago
> I've shown IRC to people who love Slack and I usually get "Ugh, it looks so old fashioned and difficult to use" as a reaction.
This is the exact reason why I don't like Slack - It takes up WAY too much screen estate. At least with IRC I can format it in a way that I prefer, AND be able to use the rest of my screen for other tasks.
- simias 9y agoSlack and Discord (which seem to be the "hype" chats these days) are pigs both in terms of real estate and resource usage. I can easily see a backlog of nearly a hundred messages in a single terminal IRC frame but I'm lucky if I can see 10 messages in Slack or Discord. So much scrolling to catch up with chat history, not to mention how laggy it feels if you don't have a high end PC. I can't easily script the client, I can't easily self-host and script the server and I'm stuck with a proprietary architecture at the whims of the devs. Amazing. You'll have to pry irssi out of my cold dead hands.