4 ms·
This article is comparing apples to oranges. IRC is a protocol, Slack is a client/app that uses protocols (one of which used to be IRC). Many IRC clients, altho
by mstudio 6y ago
This article is comparing apples to oranges. IRC is a protocol, Slack is a client/app that uses protocols (one of which used to be IRC). Many IRC clients, although beloved by some users, are rough around the edges.
In my opinion, Slack has "won" over other clients because of UX: it's extremely easy to sign-up, understand, and use productively. Plus, even large orgs (ours included), can use the free version if they're OK with having chat history disappear after a few days/weeks.
- apple4ever 6y agoSlack made the process easy, and with emojis and slash commands, fun and useful. I think another benefit to slack is you can come back to it and see the history. IRC is ephemeral unless you stick to a single device and leave it running. That's impossible for a mobile phone. It frustrates me that some large projects (ex Ansible) who insist on all discussions there, and explicitly ignore things like GitHub issues.
- Spivak 6y agoI am in no way saying that this isn't a barrier to entry (and if we're honest I think that barrier is an intentional choice) but you're supposed run a bouncer/logger and just connect your client to that. It's always weird to me that IRC didn't evolve like email with something like IMAP.
- 1337shadow 6y ago> another benefit to slack is you can come back to it and see the history As long as you pay the price.