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Slack is perfect for organizations, whereas IRC is not. And no, we're not locked into anything.
by ryanisnan 8y ago
Slack is perfect for organizations, whereas IRC is not. And no, we're not locked into anything.
- Razengan 8y ago> Slack is perfect for organizations, whereas IRC is not. Why not? Organizations can host their own IRC server(s). Won't that be better than relying on a third-party's services? And if needed, they can write their own bots, clients, or even their own specific extensions to the protocol.
- tehbeard 8y agoListen, you want to convince my boss to spend more on the infra. For in house chat w/ drag and drop file hosting, and boost my pay for now having responsibility to manage that, be my guest :)
- dmitriid 8y agoBecause the last thing organizations eant to do is host their own infra for a chat, implement their own search for a chat, re-implement the bits, the hooks, the integrations for a chat etc.?
- adrianN 8y agoHosting things on their own infrastructure is very popular for large companies. They tend to take security a lot more serious that the average startup.
- Spivak 8y agoTrue and that's why hosted services focus a lot of effort on compliance. https://slack.com/security https://slack.com/security
- ntnn 8y ago> Slack is perfect for organizations, whereas IRC is not. How so? > And no, we're not locked into anything. How so?
- pingec 8y agoI wish there was a way to ignore certain users / bots, this is such a pain for me, it makes slack too spammy and noisy for me so I only ever read private messages.
- honestoHeminway 8y agoI know several Open Source community where bots basically provide the whole additional services. PasteBin, Auto-Bug Attaching a IRC-Log to a bug report, Continous Integration Reports.. actually its easier to integrate into IRC at times.