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A great RFC instead a dozen incompatible startups would be the best thing since IRC.
by orkoden 11y ago
A great RFC instead a dozen incompatible startups would be the best thing since IRC.
- fixxer 11y agoThe best thing since IRC is IRC.
- geofft 11y agoSlack has the advantage of maintaining message history server-side instead of client-side, so you can catch up on things you missed without running a client in a screen session (or a bouncer, or a logger, or...). This functionality is part of the core protocol. Is there a similar standard for IRC? If not, then IRC is serving a different use case.
- tadfisher 11y agoIt's trivial to log IRC, but it is hard to integrate server-side log display and search with prebaked clients.
- jerf 11y agoI'm not aware of any particular feature that doesn't fit into XMPP with a couple new namespaces at most. And before you get too down on XMPP, bear in mind that anything that standardizes half-a-dozen chat clients will end up pretty nasty on its own, too. It all looks simple when you're a user of the client, but under the hood chat systems get... "interesting". In the apocryphal Chinese curse sense.