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Slack, Teams, and Discord are proof that there are serious demands to have a chat system. It's just IRC as it is, is clearly outdated for the current market. I
by that_guy_iain 5y ago
Slack, Teams, and Discord are proof that there are serious demands to have a chat system. It's just IRC as it is, is clearly outdated for the current market.
It's niche is as simple as it was way back when, you can create your own chat server for your community. Instead of having to use Discord, Slack, etc you can create your own and control it fully. While it's possible to do that to this day it's not to the same level it was back in the late 90s for example.
- path411 5y agoDamn, this makes me drool over an alternate universe where discord, slack, and teams are just competing irc clients. Unfortunately I can't imagine anything like that ever happening
- handrous 5y agoWon't happen until grabbing everyone's data isn't a top priority for tech companies. They don't want you to be able to do stuff that they can't observe. IOW we're stuck with a decaying protocol ecosystem—for messaging, and everything else—until we outlaw surveillance capitalism, which we probably won't do. Email wouldn't be able to take off if it were invented today, because it lets you use it without one company seeing everything. The state of things is really bad. It's a drag on productivity, with endless wheel-reinventing and deliberately-bad interoperability.
- orf 5y agoI mean IRC doesn’t even support multiline messages let alone any of the other things that are table stakes for an actually worthwhile chat experience. The success of slack and the failure of IRC has nothing to do with surveillance capitalism.