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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by s73v3r_ on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @07:34PM (#16541286)
So what? You're saying that like it's this terrible thing. It's not. Especially because, as has been shown, Electron apps are extremely sorely lacking in things like accessibility.
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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by bananaboy on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:38PM (#16541582)
Yeah, but unfortunately businesses prefer to sacrifice user experience for developer convenience and expediency. I wish it weren't true.

There are a couple of cases where you can avoid that in the text editor and source control space: Sublime Text is cross-platform and native, and so is SourceTree (although it's become quite buggy). So just avoid GitKraken, GitHub Desktop, VS Code, Atom.

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by panopticon on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:12PM (#16546780)
> You're saying that like it's this terrible thing.

I made no such claim. I was just providing a legitimate business reason for going the Electron route.

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