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Re:Why Messaging Startup Slack Keeps Raising Money It Doesn’... by ihuman on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @08:37PM (#11301828)
> None of the other services had so many companies building integrations on top of them

I disagree. While there is no centralized list of IRC bots (because IRC isn't centralized), there is an uncountable number of IRC bots and libraries for people to make their own.

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Re:Why Messaging Startup Slack Keeps Raising Money It Doesn’... by Mandatum on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @11:31PM (#11302408)
"companies", not services. Aside from tech companies, IRC was never adopted by wider industries. We've been using it amongst a primarily operations-based company which relied on Email and Lync previously.
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