> I do agree that IRC is stuck in the dark ages when it comes to feature support, and even just features in the spec. I dislike Slack, but whenever I use Slack

> I do agree that IRC is stuck in the dark ages when it comes to feature support, and even just features in the spec. I dislike Slack, but whenever I use Slack for a while, and then switch to IRC for something else, I miss seemingly-simple things like being able to easily share images, react to messages with emoji, start subthreads in messages (a feature of Slack's I initially hated, but eventually came to appreciate). I like that IRC doesn't have those things. IRC is great because most clients have very high information density. Look at this screenshot [0], look how many messages fit on the screen. Compare that to something like slack. Every message has a bunch of upper and lower padding, an avatar, space for reactions etc. If someone links an image, it can use up half your screen to render it. If someone links something, suddenly there is a preview wasting space. [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/XchatScreenshot2.6.6.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/XchatScr...