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IRC has terrible UX, and Slack beat it because the experience is better.
by bouk 7y ago
IRC has terrible UX, and Slack beat it because the experience is better.
- dTal 7y agoThat's not an intrinsic problem with IRC-the-protocol. The only technical issue with it is the lack of server-side channel history scrollback which makes it inconvenient for users who aren't connected 100% of the time. This could have been entirely solved with a single extra server command - "/fetch-channel-history". But I suppose no one was convinced of the need. If you wanted to make a modern, user-friendly chat application that relies on central servers, there's no reason not to base it on IRC.
- chillacy 7y agoBy the time slack published the RFC and got a few people on board someone else would have launched and taken all its customers