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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by yborg on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:15PM (#11301093)
Not sure what is so depressing here. According to the chart, a total of nine listed networks died in 50+ years, this is actually astoundingly low.

And all IRC implementations are "interoperable" in the sense that a single client that implements the protocol can connect to any of them, this chart seems to be padding things a lot by calling every IRC server network a "chat service". A number of them also have or have had interconnects with each other in the past.

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by tlrobinson on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @11:52PM (#11302470)
Surely there were networks that went defunct before 2011. That's probably when they started paying attention.
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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by chejazi on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @08:27PM (#11301781)
The depressing aspect is the accelerating fragmentation caused by more custom protocols entering the game. Supporting them all as the space grows will only get more cumbersome.
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