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Video is not in any way central to Slack. Slack solved a few key UX problems with IRC (history, search, centralized access control, team management). It could

by tpmx 4y ago

Video is not in any way central to Slack. Slack solved a few key UX problems with IRC (history, search, centralized access control, team management). It could have been implemented on 90s hardware without any issues.

_8ysf 4y ago
What key problems do you mean? Does e.g. IRCv3 solve them?
- krageon 4y ago
  To business people, not having absolute centralised control over clients is a key issue.
  - _8ysf 4y ago
    You mean the business people working for Slack/Discord, right? I don't get why a company would rely on Slack/Discord, given that those have access to their internal communications.