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Re:The Startup Zeitgeist by ldehaan on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:15AM (#11636822)
quick question, have you ever setup irc? it's actually really easy, and as far as clients for IRC go, there is such a huge range that it's hard to believe you really tried it. there are all the functions of slack and then a ton more. just an FYI, IRC is awesome and you own the data.

paying for chat is ridiculous IMO.

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Re:The Startup Zeitgeist by brianchu on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:10PM (#11640405)
Nope. And why would I bother learning when I can just click a few buttons to get Slack? I'm pretty lazy and have no interest spending the weekend learning all the features of IRC.

Also:

> This is all on the free plan obviously, but guess what the next wave of tech startups are going to use

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