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Slack. It is, IMHO, a great step forward for chat rooms. It is palatable to people who would never bother with running irssi inside of tmux.
by cpach 6y ago
Slack.
It is, IMHO, a great step forward for chat rooms. It is palatable to people who would never bother with running irssi inside of tmux.
- anotheryou 6y agoirccloud would do 90% of the same though
- cpach 6y agoSo why does Slack have so much traction?
- anotheryou 6y agoThey sure did something right, but it wasn't innovation. Maybe right time, good marketing, good design, but I honestly have no Idea. I also don't understand why smaller software communities are now spread across gitter, discord and slack when a channel on freenode was perfect...
- anotheryou 6y agoOnly advantage over freenode I see: some archive/search (usually not good)
- detaro 6y agoSlack did neither invent graphical chat clients nor web chat. "running irssi inside of tmux" as the alternative is a massive red herring.
- vangelis 6y agoI guess Pidgin or Hexchat don't exist, eh.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoOr, y'know, AIM.
- adventured 6y agoInvention != innovation. They're two different things. People in this thread are confusing the two rather painfully. The title of the thread refers to innovation. Innovate: "make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products" That's exactly what Slack did. Slack was innovative. It didn't invent chatting on the Internet.