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We Tried Slack and Regretted It

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Re: We Tried Slack and Regretted It

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Post by pbreit »

gambiter wrote: post #188
angelbob wrote: post #186

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I would complain if it had that limit and was called UNLIMITEDINT, for whatever that's worth.

You seem to be missing the point. I'm saying there's literally NO application that claims 'unlimited' that doesn't actually have SOME limit. There are always going to be technical limitations. Even if it's unlimited in practice (as in, no customer will ever reach the limit we've set) there is going to be SOME limit. Marketing materials are designed to show the intended audience how they may use something. Slack was c…

I'm OK with "effectively unlimited". But I don't think Slack meets even that with its user limitations.

With a 10,000 search limit, I don't see why Slack needs to limit users. Without search, it's mush less useful and borderline unusable with over a thousand users or so.

Re: We Tried Slack and Regretted It

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Post by LinuxBender »

jsmthrowaway wrote: post #105
voltagex_ wrote: post #87

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The slow demise of IRC is sad. Clients like WeeChat excel on the text side of things, but where's the knockout web, desktop and mobile client? Something with the UI of Gitter would go far. I always feel like IRC is a few protocol extensions and a few clients away from being relevant again. /me goes back to Freenode

I'm happy IRC is dying, because it's a giant attack surface. As a hosting provider sysadmin, dealing with IRC servers was among the absolute worst parts of my job -- mitigating DDoS attacks against them, extensive hacking attempts directed at their infrastructure and later, mine , when they couldn't get in, credit card fraud associated with the accounts, IRC networks designed specifically for command and control of b…

This does not sound related to IRC at all. It sounds related to a specific network and unintended target audience. This in no way would affect a corporation or organization that decided to use IRC. You can determine on your own IRC who is authorized to connect, make channels, etc.
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