They aren't bad, its just a question of where you put your focus. So while IRC could be used by businesses, its pretty rare (which surprised me, to be honest, b

They aren't bad, its just a question of where you put your focus. So while IRC could be used by businesses, its pretty rare (which surprised me, to be honest, but there you go). For notifications, my point was the way of implementation. For open source projects, there tends to be a fairly low-traffic mailing list where all notifications are sent. For businesses, there tend to be way more commits, and developers care a lot less about what happens in branches they aren't working on. So we personalized our emails so only the right people get the right emails. So its both a case of which features to prioritize, and the way the features are implemented, that make the difference for commercial web development teams :)