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I never got the usp of slack its a searchable private irc server is that it?

• geoah 8y ago
  IRC is annoying to use on mobile even with bouncers or services like irccloud, in addition file uploads, easy third party integrations with mostly everything, and given a pretty sane ui/ux it makes it an easy choice for many companies/projects. Yes, you could do most of these with irc's v3 protocol, but no one seems to be investing time and money to do that. Matrix bridges for irc are also interesting as you get some of these benefits, but to the dismay of the IRC users that will see links for messages longer than what their server allows, and weird usernames that include [m].
  • dingaling 8y ago
    Slack is even more annoying on mobile; I can't post through the mobile webapp, only read.
• bencollier49 8y ago
  Also you can post gifs.
• IshKebab 8y ago
  It's a modern version of IRC with useful modern features, notably: * Threads * Images * File upload * Markdown-like formatting (although very annoyingly it is arbitrarily different to markdown and doesn't support links). * Emoji reactions (you probably think that is frivolous but it is genuinely useful) * Channel history (i.e. you don't have to be online at the time to receive messages)
  • autotune 8y ago
    > Threads Some folks would vehemently disagree with this being considered useful.
    • IshKebab 8y ago
      Maybe stuck-in-the-mud naysayers. Threads make it possible to track multiple conversations in the same channel in a sane way. Anyone who has used IRC when there are two simultaneous but separate conversations happening in the same channel will know how shit it is.
  • dbbk 8y ago
    And push notifications