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Why? There is no need to re-invent IRC.

• bonaldi 15y ago
  And yet a fair few people (including 37 Signals) have tried, because there's a recognition that irc is plain hostile to modern users. A real-time low-friction shared chat service would actually be a hugely compelling thing inside Facebook.
  • Florin_Andrei 15y ago
    > there's a recognition that irc is plain hostile to modern users How so? (just curious, I used it before in a corporate environment, it was fine for us)
    • bonaldi 15y ago
      In much the same way that if you live in a world of Word, vi is hostile. Don't get me wrong -- I use and love irc, for many of the reasons given above. I just think if I could have all or many of its benefits in a way that all my non-technical Facebook friends could use too, there'd be something exceptionally powerful and useful. It's almost like right now we're in the days of pine and mailman. What we could have is GMail.
      • Florin_Andrei 15y ago
        I see what you mean. We were all Unix geeks, so perhaps that's why it worked well for us.
  • tedunangst 15y ago
    irc is hostile to the kind of user that 37 signals markets to. I don't know that it's necessarily hostile to the kind of user who works in Facebook engineering.