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Re:IRC v3 by sudhirkhanger on Monday October 10, 2016 @01:28AM (#12675228)
Do you think IRC will be able to compete with likes of Slack?
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Re:IRC v3 by cyphar on Monday October 10, 2016 @01:56AM (#12675316)
IRC is already more widely used than Slack. So yes. A better question would be of Matrix.im will compete with Slack -- and to that I'm not sure.
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Re:IRC v3 by danfromberlin on Monday October 10, 2016 @10:55AM (#12677392)
What evidence do you have that IRC is already used more widely than Slack? Also, what's your metric, number of users?
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