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0 pointschc410y ago0 comments

I honestly don't get this. I've been using IRC for a few years, but I don't think nearly enough for blind eye nostalgia to take hold.

It's not like you're stuck with ugly terminal only clients anymore. There is KiwiIRC, IRCCloud, and several other great web clients that not only let you connect to any server but provide bouncer services and backlog. There are also plenty of easy to use native clients that don't require any configuration.

There are some benefits of Slack, but the ones you mention aren't them. In fact, seeing how you CANT host your own Slack server I would say "difficult to host" is a flat lie against IRC.

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op00to10y ago· 1 in thread

I don't want "backlog" (read: see what happened when I was gone). I want full-text searching of the entire channel history. I already log my IRC conversations, and it's a pain in the goddamned ass to ssh to my bouncer, grep through the logs, and try to find what I was looking for. I want to type in the same client that I'm chatting in, and be able to reference this message to other people. IRC doesn't do that.

anonymoushn10y ago

grep works way better than Slack's search, which makes you wait several seconds per tiny page of search results. I look forward to the day when Slack catches up to grep.

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