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0 pointsjohannes12343219y ago0 comments

Aside from what others already mentioned: One key issue with IRC is the mobile or multiple device story.

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Insanity9y ago· 3 in thread

Only if you use plain IRC. If you use something like irccloud, that is prevented. Which can be thought of as a "webwrapper" for IRC. I have been using it for some time now and I enjoy it.

(I'm not affiliated with irccloud in any way)

lmm9y ago

IRCCloud's free plan is much worse than even Slack's, their paid tiers are more expensive per-user IIRC, and their UI isn't quite as polished.

Insanity9y ago

I was not trying to compare it to slack. I was merely pointing out that IRC does not need to mean "plain IRC".

I have been using Slack for about a year now at work and I think it's great. I don't think irccloud would be a suitable replacement either :-)

johannes1234321OP9y ago

Well, then you're not using IRC anymore, but some service which by chance uses IRC as Backend

lorenzhs9y ago

I use WeeChat (https://weechat.org/, running on my server) and Glowing Bear (https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear) to connect to it from wherever I am (desktop or mobile), it works very nicely. Because it's self-hosted, it has higher setup overhead than signing up to slack, of course. But it does solve IRC's mobile and multi-device problems for me wonderfully. (I'm one of the Glowing Bear developers)

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