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I'm not sure if you're agreeing or not, but the visual aspect of irc is probably due to it not always having multi Gb of RAM. One thing ive never read is "why

• tonyarkles 7y ago
  When Slack still had the IRC bridge, I participated in my company's team slack using Irssi. There were a few things that didn't work great, but it was so snappy compared to the official client and I could run it in a tmux alongside everything else I was doing (I was in a devOPS role; light on dev, heavy on ops). Plus it didn't fill my screen with animated gifs all the time... that was nice. There's still a community I hang out with on IRC, and I started thinking about finding an IRC client for my new Macbook Pro (have been using X-Chat on Linux for months). Just the other day on HN I learned about Erc, which is an IRC client that's built right into Emacs. Tried it out last night and it's working awesome so far! Now if only the 8 Slack teams I'm a part of would switch over...