5 ms·
Yet everyone is so eager to abandon IRC for Slack and that type of garbage. What is really the difference here?
by gnu8 7y ago
Yet everyone is so eager to abandon IRC for Slack and that type of garbage. What is really the difference here?
- buzzert 7y agoI’m not. And I bet the parent commenter isn’t either.
- einpoklum 7y agoYup. Not that Slack doesn't have some desirable features which I would like in a chat mechanism, but that's not remotely enough to choose it over IRC.
- jeltz 7y agoThat email is mainly used for communicating with people at different companies while Slack is mainly used for communication within the company. And IRC has a lot of usability issues which have not yet been solved. Personally I strongly dislike Slack and hope that Matrix will kill it, but I understand why people adopted Slack and most of those reasons does not apply here.
- inshadows 7y ago> And IRC has a lot of usability issues which have not yet been solved. Such as? I know of - Lack of multi-line messages. AFAIK that's addresses in some new IRC RFC but it's not widely - Server-stored messages. Bouncer can deal with that, though, it's kind of a hack. Otherwise I love usability of IRC clients! My IRC client binary is 1.1 MB big!!!
- erikpukinskis 7y agoThere's still no quick and easy way to set up an IRC server for a company. There are plenty of ways to easily set up email.
- okasaki 7y agoapt-get install ircd-hybrid?
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- dependenttypes 7y agoEmail servers are some of the most annoying pieces of software to set up and maintain. IRC servers aren't anything like that at all.
- einpoklum 7y agoActually I feel it's more the other way around.
- mvanbaak 7y agoNo. Only the people who see no problem in The things OP mentioned are eager to switch to slack.
- jayd16 7y agoBecause slack is a better experience and IRC failed to make it work. Just because something is an open standard doesn't mean its the best product. There's probably still room for an open source, confederated IM client with proper workspaces, history management, and ubiquitous clients.
- nmfisher 7y ago> There's probably still room for an open source, confederated IM client with proper workspaces, history management, and ubiquitous clients. Matrix?