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Re:The Startup Zeitgeist by malz on Thursday May 05, 2016 @01:13AM (#11634127)
Every job I've held for 20 years has involved keeping a chat window open with my collaborators. At various times it was IRC, Jabber, AIM, iChat, HipChat; but now Slack is suddenly the one worth a jillion dollars.
Re:The Startup Zeitgeist by tedmiston on Friday May 06, 2016 @12:03AM (#11641619)
The tooling and ecosystem around Slack are quite different than any of the others. (Admittedly I don't follow the IRC space much.)