Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
by jonathankoren on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @04:38PM
(#11300485)
That's Slack's main feature. Well that and gifs. IRC on the other hand is
James has left the channel.
Bill has left the channel.
Samantha has joined the channel.
Samantha has left the channel.
filled with worthless status updates
Martha has gone idle
that make it
Bill has joined the channel.
terribly easy to
Bill has changed the channel topic to "ZOMG! Ponies!"
miss things
Martha has become active
Martha has left the channel.
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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
by cookiecaper on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @04:41PM
(#11300504)
Messages just like that show up in Slack whenever someone joins or parts the channel, changes the topic, etc. Not sure this is a valid complaint.
Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
by navait on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @04:47PM
(#11300559)
Well, in Slack, you don't leave by disconnecting, so that lowers the volume of people joining/quitting because they moved their laptop.
It doesn't help that IRC tends to get used in places where massive amounts of users are expected. I feel some of the newbie clients should just hide by default join/quit spam.
Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
by rarepostinlurkr on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:48PM
(#11300950)
You can turn all of those notices off; I've not seen those sorts of updates in channel for years & years.
Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
by jonathankoren on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:12PM
(#11301075)
True, but most clients have it on by default.
Also on public IRC you tend to have a channels of 80 people, all idle.