> Seeing a lot of comments on the thread to the tune of "just use IRC; I don't use the features that Slack et al offer on top of IRC, so neither should anybody

> Seeing a lot of comments on the thread to the tune of "just use IRC; I don't use the features that Slack et al offer on top of IRC, so neither should anybody else". Where I work, the argument is reversed: "just use Slack; I can't deal with some of the limitations of IRC because I'm not willing to, so no one should use IRC." This effectively happened once Slack discontinued the IRC gateway they provided.