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That 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 lo
by jeltz 7y ago
That 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!!!