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0 pointskqr8y ago0 comments

IRC is not a service. It's a protocol. There are services built on IRC mentioned in this thread which have history as a built-in feature.

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rspeer8y ago

And yet every thread about Slack (or Discord or Gitter or whatever) is full of people saying "why not just use IRC"?, as if IRC could replace a complete service.

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0 pointskqr8y ago0 comments

IRC is not a service. It's a protocol. There are services built on IRC mentioned in this thread which have history as a built-in feature.

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rspeer8y ago

And yet every thread about Slack (or Discord or Gitter or whatever) is full of people saying "why not just use IRC"?, as if IRC could replace a complete service.

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