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Thai reduces a number of companies, eg Slack, to an “accidental complexity” then.

• mcphage 5y ago
  Are you saying that you think Slack's primary challenge is font rendering?
  • trasz 5y ago
    No, it’s providing a web service to do something that would work (and used to work) much better without it. Their primary challenge is making money, and that part probably is better as a web service, but it makes it worse from technical point of view. Just like with hypothetical FaaS - worse technically, but you can have adds.
    • Zababa 5y ago
      I'll bite, what exactly worked much better than Slack without the web?
      • trasz 5y ago
        Pretty much anything, starting from IRC - it offered more functionality, from logging to scripting, but the general idea is the same.