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IRC is probably the best example of worse-is-better design, its not great, has some obvious problems, but its good enough that nothing to come after it has been
by Aloha 12y ago
IRC is probably the best example of worse-is-better design, its not great, has some obvious problems, but its good enough that nothing to come after it has been able to fully unseat it.
- davidgerard 12y agoWe have a BIG PUSH to go all Google Hangouts. Which is admittedly a vast improvement on nothing, but ... The technology department has resisted on the basis that every tool talks to IRC, and no tool talks to Hangouts.
- MetaCosm 12y agoHangouts continues to build itself an Island as it sheds any even hand-wavy notion of being XMPP. Slack has a lovely web client and both XMPP and IRC gateways -- meaning most everyone can use their favorite interface.