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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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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)

Insanity9y ago

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

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lorenzhs9y ago

Insanity9y ago

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

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