Seems like there are 16 billion reasons NOT to choose IRC. From Slack's perspective (and you could argue most of it's users) this was a good choice. FWIW, I'v

Seems like there are 16 billion reasons NOT to choose IRC. From Slack's perspective (and you could argue most of it's users) this was a good choice. FWIW, I've been using IRC for over 20 years.