IRC vs Slack Debate
Cluster focuses on comparisons between IRC and modern chat tools like Slack, Discord, and Matrix, debating IRC's simplicity and openness against newer features like history, search, and accessibility.
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Explain me how this is better than IRC.
How's this better than IRC?
Have you tried out irccloud.com? It addresses most of what most people think Slack is better than IRC at.
What kind of chat would be more accessible than IRC?
Just a heads up. If you suddenly feel that IRC is too feature free or outdated for your needs, have some courtesy and consider a modern, federated and open solution instead.https://riot.im/https://matrix.org/
Sorry if I keep repeating myself. If you suddenly feel that IRC is too feature free or outdated for your needs, have some courtesy and consider a modern, federated and open solution instead. Matrix/Riot.im roughly has the pros of Slack (yes, including IRC bridges).https://riot.im/https://matrix.org/
Acting like IRC is equal in functionality to Slack or Discord is straight up delusional.One of the biggest problems with IRC is that there is no immediately obvious way to jump into a channel and browse or search the history.Also, because there are so many IRC clients, and so many servers out there, one person's IRC experience can vastly differ from another's.IRC also doesn't have any of the modern amenities like emoji reactions or reaction gifs, comment threads, code sn
Agreed, there is little that Slack gives me IRC doesn't, a good client and I'm set.
What kind of chat wouldn't be more accessible than IRC?
IRC vs slack is misguided comparison. Irc is protocol, slack is centralized service.