> Can you share an image inline? Not inline, but you can share link to the image or send it to other person/persons via DCC directly, that's what you do on IRC

> Can you share an image inline? Not inline, but you can share link to the image or send it to other person/persons via DCC directly, that's what you do on IRC. > Can you rapidly search the history? Sure, no problems with that, all the channels we use are logged and ready for advanced search. > Can you customize alerts? Yes. > Does it work reliably on mobile? Works for us. > You're debugging something and you want to share a screenshot, inline, how does that work on IRC? I already answered that. > Can you start audio or video calls with room participants? We don't do that on IRC. If Slack works for you then great, it doesn't do anything for us. We have different workflow than you, which doesn't mean it's worse, it's just different. We don't need integration with dropbox, intercom etc, because we don't use them and we have IRC integration with tools we use already. We host all our tools and infrastructure and we need to control the whole stack. I didn't said anywhere that new startup should go with IRC (unless you are already familiar with IRC with your team). I've shared my experience and opinion about IRC. We had infrastructure built around IRC already, we have a lot of experience with IRC and whole team knows IRC very well. I know some other teams that use IRC and they don't have any problems either.