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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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