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> Building a slack alternative I've always thought slack was the alternative, to IRC.
by sigg3 3y ago
> Building a slack alternative
I've always thought slack was the alternative, to IRC.
- palata 3y agoMe too... Modern software piles up new stuff on top of new stuff. There is no time for the basics. /s
- awestroke 3y agoIsn't "alternative" commutative?
- wakamoleguy 3y agoCommutative means that changing the order of the operands yields the same result. Ex: a+b = b+a. In that way, "alternative" is (mostly) commutative, but there are exceptions: Amazon is an alternative to a local bookstore, but a local bookstore is not necessary an alternative to Amazon. The transitive property implies that if a=b and b=c, then a=c. "Alternatives" are also (mostly) transitive. A counterexample would be that Slack is an alternative to IRC, and IRC is an alternative to Slack, but Slack is not an alternative to Slack!
- awestroke 3y agoAmazon is also not necessarily an alternative to a local bookstore
- kachnuv_ocasek 3y agoIRC was originally an alternative to a BBS… You can keep piling this to no end.
- nicce 3y agoLet’s not forget the Windows Live Messenger. I guess it was more like Discord alternative of that time.
- orthecreedence 3y agoI prefer Comic Chat.
- nicce 3y agoHow I have missed this… Oh I’m too young.