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I suppose this includes irc in a way too - AFAIK slack used to be (mostly) just a propiatary IRC network and client?
by e12e 4y ago
I suppose this includes irc in a way too - AFAIK slack used to be (mostly) just a propiatary IRC network and client?
- sc68cal 4y agoThey had IRC gateways that you could use to connect your IRC client into slack, but I don't think their architecture started like the IRC protocol. It appears to have at one time just been a webapp, with databases for storage for messages. Not anything like IRC's protocol/architecture. https://www.slideshare.net/InfoQ/how-slack-works https://www.slideshare.net/InfoQ/how-slack-works It may have subsequently turned into something more like how IRC servers work, but early on it doesn't appear to have been.
- nitia 4y agoTwitch still is