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Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by bsder on Thursday July 27, 2017 @01:24AM (#14862883)
> I know this makes me sound old, but I really wish popular open source projects would just stick to IRC

No offense, but the IRC user interface is REALLY lousy. I've been around the block, and I hate going into IRC.

In addition, I wish people would bring back mailing lists. No, Google Groups is not a good substitute.

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Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by segmondy on Thursday July 27, 2017 @01:32AM (#14862910)
IRC doesn't have a user interface, it's a protocol. The interface varies based on which client you are using. One can make an IRC client that looks like slack.
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Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by LaGrange on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:46AM (#14863611)
No, it can't. No multiline messages, no threading (a lot of people want it, though personally I think it's a terrible idea), no embedding images.

IRC is Not Good.

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Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by xPaw on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:14AM (#14863695)
Image embedding depends on the client you use really. For example The Lounge [1] can display information about links and show image previews like Slack does.

[1] https://thelounge.github.io/

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Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by LaGrange on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:41AM (#14863805)
That's very different. In Slack, I, as the poster, can decide whether to show a preview (it might be pointless and take up space), and add metadata to it. It's also searchable by _anyone_ in the chat history. The uniformity of these features matters, and you need protocol support for that.
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