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It amuses me to no end that all these "innovative collaborative tools" are rigidly locked in to Slack's way of displaying information.
by dmitriid 4y ago
It amuses me to no end that all these "innovative collaborative tools" are rigidly locked in to Slack's way of displaying information.
- api 4y agoSlack just copied IRC clients.
- ElfinTrousers 4y agoAs a co-worker of mine put it some years back, "I was not expecting this year's big growth sector to be fancy IRC."
- dmitriid 4y agoSlack had an "innovation" in the form of unusable threads that every other client is now sheepishly copying.
- api 4y agoThe big innovation over IRC was persistent chat across devices. That was huge and is pretty much a must have now.
- aliqot 4y agoirccloud had that first, and before that znc, before that we had these byzantine bitchx setups, but it's nothing new from concept to implementation, I'd say
- api 4y agoI didn’t say it was new, just that it delivered that in a simple way. I can get someone on Slack in 5 minutes or less.
- dmitriid 4y agoI personally think that Slack was a huge improvement over IRC UX-wise. Especially for "normal" people: persistent chat across devices, search, inline previews of images, videos, urls etc. On the UI side however it looks like we're stuck again, with everyone just copy-pasting whatever the leader of tge pack does.