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Nothing? I read these HN link posts from IRC. ##hntop on libera network. Many s/w projects still maintain support channels on IRC. The migration to proprietar
by johnea 2y ago
Nothing? I read these HN link posts from IRC. ##hntop on libera network.
Many s/w projects still maintain support channels on IRC.
The migration to proprietary support mechanisms isolates a number of users. Mozilla in particular is much more difficult to interact with since migrating away from IRC.
I've also worked for a company that ran it's own XMPP chat server. XMPP chat clients allow file attachments, see messages from times when client is disconnected (without a bouncer), integration of voice and video chat, whiteboard, etc. Pretty much everything slack, discord, etc offer.
This question is similar to why do companies use the cloud, when most of the time they could just run a server. My biased opinion: laziness. Mostly the laziness of following fashion instead of the technically superior solution.
- ebiester 2y agoI will pay you $5,000 today (metaphorically speaking) if you can give me a today solution on IRC that gives me every feature I care about with slack and works as well as slack for people who have never used IRC. Caution: That means interoperating with Okta/SAML, and seamless client-side history with administrator-set retention periods (deleted on server and all clients), and the ability to move something from a DM to a private channel to a public channel and vice versa and the hundreds of features that Slack has built because they've had millions and millions of dollars that open source doesn't have. Businesses have different needs than IRC (or Matrix) provides. It'd be amazing if someone could build a foundation that allowed common open source competition over slack but we can see all the problems with business-focused OSS these days.