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The idea that Slack is strictly worse than IRC in functionality is laughable. Maybe IRC does some things better, but Slack certainly offers improvements as wel
by spiderice 5y ago
The idea that Slack is strictly worse than IRC in functionality is laughable. Maybe IRC does some things better, but Slack certainly offers improvements as well.
- u801e 5y agoSlack and Teams have always been laggy for me, meaning there's a perceptible delay between the time you press the keys on the keyboard and when the text appears on the screen. This isn't an issue with GUI IRC clients or many of the older chat platforms that were in use in the early 2000s. The UI issues, at least for me, are the problem.
- anthk 5y agoKopete. We could do everything Slack did (even with inline Youtube videos, LaTex and video chat) under an AMD Athlon XP and 256 MB of RAM. And with KDE3 in the background. cc /u/spiderice
- trasz 5y agoThey are laggy, their logging and search support is a joke, they are non-interoperable, lack scripting support, and the UI is less responsive than MIRC on a 90 MHz Pentium. I’m certain they do have some advantage though, apart from marketing. I’d love to find out what.
- anthk 5y agoMaybe lack of signing-in everywhere, but Jabber solved that and with Bitlbee or any CLI tool you could IM from that 90MHZ Pentium.
- Revery42 5y agoEasier account creation and file sharing, I believe.
- u801e 5y agoAOL instant messenger, MSN messenger, Yahoo instant messenger, and Google talk didn't have issues with account creation or file sharing. You didn't really need an account for IRC and file sharing via DCC wasn't an issue in the dial-up days before firewalls were common.
- trasz 5y agoSo can you give some examples?
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