I personally think that Slack was a huge improvement over IRC UX-wise. Especially for "normal" people: persistent chat across devices, search, inline previews o

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.