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There's more to a product than a protocol and foundational similarities. Whenever someone uses this to distract away from the success of Slack, for example, I q
by ctvo 7y ago
There's more to a product than a protocol and foundational similarities. Whenever someone uses this to distract away from the success of Slack, for example, I question if they realize that UX, design, ease are all part of a product and can be independently innovated on.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoReminds me when you start working on a side project, get a PoC working on the weekend (like a to-be application/website that for now kinda works on the command line), and tell yourself "alright, the hard part is over!" Then you realize you only finished the 0.01%. That's about where IRC seemed to have stopped. "We're done. The clients can do the hard stuff that users actually want."
- falcolas 7y agoNaw, IRC was v1. It worked quite well, was well thought out, and standardized. Perfect? No. Good enough for the time and use-case? Yes. Slack and its kin are v2, capturing the requirements that have changed with the changing userbase. I only wish they were standardized, so we could have non-first party implementations (with the benefits that come with that).
- carlmr 7y agoIsn't mattermost an open source version of slack with most of the important features?
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- javagram 7y agohttps://ircv3.net/ https://ircv3.net/ does exist although i’m not sure how competitive it can be. It’s hard to see a future for IRC or something like it to beat the proprietary alternatives unfortunately.