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You mean Slack cloned IRC with markup and pictures
by techntoke 8y ago
You mean Slack cloned IRC with markup and pictures
- Andrex 8y agoIf it were that easy, everyone would be IPOing their Slackalikes right now.
- deathanatos 8y agoAnd history. And search. And attachments. And video calls. And a decent experience for non-power-users. And a decent integration/API story. And multi-person DMs. All of which are immensely useful features. I get that HN likes to think "it's just chat", but a decent chat application (having used gChat, Slack, IRC, AIM, …) is way more nuanced than that.
- techntoke 8y agoThe point was it is unfair to say that Mattermost cloned Slack. Many of these technologies aren't unique to Slack.