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Slack just copied IRC clients.
by api 4y ago
Slack 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.