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> Real Team Chat clients are in their infancy Is there any real innovation over IRC? Beyond that, I remember using Campfire almost five years ago and it had p
by ng12 8y ago
> Real Team Chat clients are in their infancy
Is there any real innovation over IRC? Beyond that, I remember using Campfire almost five years ago and it had pretty close feature parity with Slack today. This seems like a revolution in usability and branding if anything.
- mprev 8y agoIRC lacks history, unless you want to run a proxy some place. With IRC, you either run your own server or trust a server run by someone with whom you probably have no commercial relationship. IRC clients mostly suck, for the purposes of people who are not already IRC aficionados. File transfers are, afaicr, not ideal with IRC. Bottom line is, IRC doesn’t just work in the way most people need. Sure, it’s branding and usability but they’re hugely important.