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Slack had an "innovation" in the form of unusable threads that every other client is now sheepishly copying.

• api 4y ago
  The big innovation over IRC was persistent chat across devices. That was huge and is pretty much a must have now.
  • aliqot 4y ago
    irccloud 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 ago
      I 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 ago
    I 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.