Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways

Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by dman on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @07:26PM (#16541253)

Killing battery life of their users isnt a business reason?

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by rhinoceraptor on Thursday March 08, 2018 @01:15AM (#16542678)

All enterprise desktop software is trash. Everyone has to put up with terrible AV, terrible VPN clients, terrible VOIP/video conferencing, etc. There's no incentive to make good software for your users when your users don't have a choice.

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by arvinsim on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:12PM (#16541468)

If doesn't affect their bottomline, then why will they bother?

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by dman on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:28PM (#16541539)

Customers are fickle beasts, they mutter and keep on using a product until they dont.

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by raydev on Thursday March 08, 2018 @09:56AM (#16544655)

Sure, but it'll ultimately be because of a hot new UX or feature that Slack didn't think of, not battery life.

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by gruez on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:42PM (#16541606)

yet there's no slack competitor that has "better battery life" or "native apps" as one of its selling points.

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by cyphar on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @09:27PM (#16541784)

Matrix has native clients[1], as well as a weechat plugin.

[1]: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/quaternion.html

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by salvar on Thursday March 08, 2018 @07:24AM (#16543902)

So rewriting all their clients would be a more sensible approach to user retention compared to keeping the current Electron client that most users seem quite happy with?

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by dman on Thursday March 08, 2018 @09:13AM (#16544402)

Nokia had users who were happy with the solid phones they were building.

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by salvar on Thursday March 08, 2018 @10:08AM (#16544745)

So rewriting all their clients would be a more sensible approach to user retention compared to keeping the current Electron client that most users seem quite happy with?

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