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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by saagarjha on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @04:32PM (#16540105)
Only Slack can answer that, but considering that Slack is commonly used at many technology companies I'd say that the number is probably reasonably high. I tend to find that software developers tend to have a much lower tolerance for non-native/poorly optimized/proprietary software than most people.
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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by rocky1138 on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:05PM (#16541423)
That may be true for greybeards, but I've found the opposite with people of the younger generations.
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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by saagarjha on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:27PM (#16541535)
> I've found the opposite with people of the younger generations

You're talking to one

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by always_good on Thursday March 08, 2018 @10:23AM (#16544844)
Well, I'd have to agree with them. My peers are generally happy using Slack, Discord, and other proprietary solutions.

Though I'm not convinced that greybeards are any different, just the ones you find caring about it on the internet.

My dad's a 68-year-old old school embedded hardware developer and he'll use whatever toolkit works. I reckon most people in the world are like him and not obsessing over tools, despite what HN makes you think.

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by flukus on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @11:35PM (#16542307)
It's not tolerance, it's just that they know who to blame. You're average user is just as likely to blame MS, a virus or their ISP instead of the company making their computer run like a dog.
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