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Have you ever worked at a remote company? If so, the benefits for group chat solution would be obvious. On the other hand, you could just use IRC (IRCCloud is
by oskarth 12y ago
Have you ever worked at a remote company? If so, the benefits for group chat solution would be obvious.
On the other hand, you could just use IRC (IRCCloud is $5/month and has support for embedded gists etc) and a private chat server. This is what we did at my last company. But I haven't used Slack for real, so don't take my word for it - it's not impossible there are even more benefits compared to IRC.
- bratsche 12y agoWe used to use irc at my company, mostly because it's what we're all used to using in the past. But maintaining it was kind of a pain in the ass, and as the company grew larger it became more difficult to use and to keep track of who is who. For example, people who have known me for years know my irc name is bratsche, but newer people have trouble finding me on irc. We're using Slack now and this is not an issue. The search capabilities are nice occasionally, although when I was trying to search yesterday through a private conversation history it only gave me results from public rooms so I finally just had to scroll up a few days to find what I was looking for. Bookmarks/stars are a really nice, simple feature that is incredibly useful though. If someone says something and you think you're going to need to come back to that, just bookmark it right there. I remember years ago having conversations on irc and either copy/pasting into notes files or even taking screenshots of the window so I could come back to it. :)