I really don't agree with you For Slack / IRC: Slack is a much easier IRC: you don't need a bouncer to keep your session open, you can easily send files / imag

I really don't agree with you For Slack / IRC: Slack is a much easier IRC: you don't need a bouncer to keep your session open, you can easily send files / images / videos, code snippets, a lot of integrations are baked in and work very well. For hangouts / AIM: Can you do video chat on AIM ? Also, for AIM, you still need someone to maintain the server, but I don't think people are ready to pay for chat. And they But why would a company host for free a server for an open protocol like AIM ? Why do you think we don't see more big companies behind it? Also, I think voice chats work very well with facebook messenger (I don't remember that it worked that well in the golden era of AIM and MSN messenger).