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Re:The real reason Slack became a billion dollar company (2015) by pmlnr on Thursday March 24, 2016 @05:53PM (#11356776)
IRC client -> ZNC -> Slack IRC => logs*

Sync them with Syncthing => locally saved logs, you can read them later.

Problem solved.

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Re:The real reason Slack became a billion dollar company (2015) by argonaut on Thursday March 24, 2016 @07:21PM (#11357334)
Problem solved for technically savvy software engineers who enjoy wasting a day of their time for a worse product (and an hour or so every so often with maintenance).
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Re:The real reason Slack became a billion dollar company (2015) by pmlnr on Friday March 25, 2016 @04:50AM (#11359076)
Worse product? You're cute.

Slack without the unicorn farts is much less of a hassle and a distraction; I have enough things to keep an eye on to appreciate plain text communication.

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Re:The real reason Slack became a billion dollar company (2015) by argonaut on Friday March 25, 2016 @07:48PM (#11363621)
There is a reason 90% of the world writes their text in Microsoft Word / Google Docs rather than Vim/emacs/Sublime/Notepad. Something tells me Slack is going after the 90%.
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