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I'm glad Freenode has a user base for work related stuff, but I man do I miss when Undernet or Dalnet was still popular. I know I'll never run into my mother on IRC, and it is probably because of the format.
It seems that the author references different IRC clients but at the same time ignores (can't say if on purpose or not) the fact that there are also alternative Slack clients which address many of the pain points.
To stefan's point, Slack clients are unofficial and unsupported software built on top of proprietary protocols which are subject to change at any time according to the whims of a private company which has their bottom line at heart instead of your communication needs.
It seems that the author references different IRC clients but at the same time ignores (can't say if on purpose or not) the fact that there are also alternative Slack clients which address many of the pain points.
The author references different IRC clients as being societal forces that tends to curtail adoption of certain features. The official Slack client sets the tone for usage there.
It seems that the author references different IRC clients but at the same time ignores (can't say if on purpose or not) the fact that there are also alternative Slack clients which address many of the pain points.
To stefan's point, Slack clients are unofficial and unsupported software built on top of proprietary protocols which are subject to change at any time according to the whims of a private company which has their bottom line at heart instead of your communication needs.
Many of the paint points are solved when using alternative clients. Alternative clients will allow you to, for example:
* Use Slack on an ancient computer
* Use TTS systems
* Not use threads (you can just dump everything in the channel)
* Not have link previews
* Use keyboard only
* Get a less distracting experience
I'm also an IRC user and I like it but I just wanted to point out the post isn't fair with Slack if only one client is evaluated.
Edit: list formatting
I'm glad Freenode has a user base for work related stuff, but I man do I miss when Undernet or Dalnet was still popular. I know I'll never run into my mother on IRC, and it is probably because of the format.
I too miss the good old days of Undernet, where Romanian criminals would show off hacked systems, or DDOS other IRC users.
Give me irssi or give me death
It seems that the author references different IRC clients but at the same time ignores (can't say if on purpose or not) the fact that there are also alternative Slack clients which address many of the pain points.
To stefan's point, Slack clients are unofficial and unsupported software built on top of proprietary protocols which are subject to change at any time according to the whims of a private company which has their bottom line at heart instead of your communication needs.
Yeah, lets just forget how painful it was for non english speaking users to use IRC. 255 characters for unicode and 510, but you have to guess encoding.