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And logging and services that aren’t hacky god clients and user accounts as first class and... IRC has had literal decades to be improved and only now do peopl

And logging and services that aren’t hacky god clients and user accounts as first class and... IRC has had literal decades to be improved and only now do people get serious about it after Slack and friends sucked all the oxygen out of the room. Older isn’t necessarily better either. IRC has stagnated hard, about the only thing it has on the competitors is that it’s free.

hueving 8y ago
>about the only thing it has on the competitors is that it’s free. It's more than 'free'. It's an open standard. You can write a slack client in your favorite language and it will continue to work for years. Slack does not compete with that.
- paulryanrogers 8y ago
  ^"[IRC] client and it will work for years" ?
jlgaddis 8y ago
> ... it’s free. And doesn't require 8 GB of RAM to run a client.
- greglindahl 8y ago
  Ha ha that's crazy talk! Eventually they threw my IRC server off of EFNet because 8 total megabytes of ram for the server+OS was too little for the working set.