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There's something ironic about a social media company being forced to rely on a competitor to facilitate communication between them and their users.

• mic47 8y ago
  Why? When Facebook is down, you cannot use Facebook to communicate about the issue. That is also reason why FB still uses* irc instead of messenger for coordinating how to resolve such issues. * Or at least used 1 year ago, when I was working there.
  • nikanj 8y ago
    Hmm, I wonder if we could leverage that to make irc more popular again. "FB uses X" is often all the justification small startups need for picking a tech.
    • mic47 8y ago
      most startups can use their standard comm channels since most startups are not doing collaboration/communication tools.