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Ok. So what do you think are the reasons that IRC has lost marketshare to Slack and Discord?
by cpach 2y ago
Ok. So what do you think are the reasons that IRC has lost marketshare to Slack and Discord?
- mariusor 2y agoI would assume it's mostly marketing. There's no entity behind IRC to push its adoption and herd the cats to a singular goal. The lack of features that Slack/Discord specifically added to differentiate themselves from IRC are also important, but it was a lot simpler to add them to their brand new designs, than to work through having to specify them onto the IRC protocol and then get servers and clients to adopt it. You can look at the IRCv3 page linked higher in the thread to see some of the efforts, but this is 10 years later and we're still not there. :D
- qudat 2y agoPopular irc servers still haven’t adopted ircv3, effectively holding all of irc back from making progress.
- cpach 2y agoI rest my case.