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0 pointsna857y ago0 comments

Irc with proper roaming support and push notifications would blow discord or slack out of the water.

Newer is not necessarily better.

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j457y ago

The lack of familiarity with irc from slack only users seems to reveal an unfamiliarity with irc being a connected universe of many slack sites being on one network.

xPaw7y ago

The Lounge is a web client, so you can access it from any browser (PWA, push notification support). Since your IRC connection runs on a server, roaming and connection drops is not a problem.

https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

digi_owl7y ago

Aka a bouncer?

na85OP7y ago

Yes, but baked in. Bouncers are horrible UX and a huge obstacle to onboarding.

"this service is only usable on your phone if you also sign up for another service" pretty much makes it a non-starter.

Karunamon7y ago

And logging and services that aren’t hacky god clients and user accounts as first class and...

IRC has had literal decades to be improved and only now do people get serious about it after Slack and friends sucked all the oxygen out of the room.

Older isn’t necessarily better either. IRC has stagnated hard, about the only thing it has on the competitors is that it’s free.

jlgaddis7y ago

> ... it’s free.

And doesn't require 8 GB of RAM to run a client.

greglindahl7y ago

Ha ha that's crazy talk! Eventually they threw my IRC server off of EFNet because 8 total megabytes of ram for the server+OS was too little for the working set.

hueving7y ago

>about the only thing it has on the competitors is that it’s free.

It's more than 'free'. It's an open standard. You can write a slack client in your favorite language and it will continue to work for years.

Slack does not compete with that.

paulryanrogers7y ago

^"[IRC] client and it will work for years" ?

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