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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by Kudos on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @06:39PM (#16541021)
The two things IRC is actually missing for most people is push notifications and "offline" history. Yes you can get these if you run your own bouncer, or whatever, but it's not native to the technology. I think Matrix is ahead of IRC for solving both of those issues.
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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by mixedmath on Thursday March 08, 2018 @06:06AM (#16543641)
IRC is the protocol. There are myriad services which use the IRC protocol. Some of these do include push notifications and offline history, such as irccloud (and others).

The freedom to choose is one of the reasons people wish slack would open source their protocol.

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