Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
by yorwba on Thursday March 08, 2018 @12:22AM
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When I combine the feature set of IRC/Skype/Teamspeak/WhatsApp, I come up with text chat + voice/video conferencing, which e.g. Skype already provides. Is the difference that the client is great?
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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
by rspeer on Thursday March 08, 2018 @01:42AM
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Yeah, a feature set doesn't matter if the features are bad. I would never want to use Skype as a platform for an ongoing text chat. (Does Skype even have persistent channels?)
Also now that Discord exists, I would never do a voice chat in Skype either. A substantial portion of every Skype call I've ever been on was people apologizing to each other for the bad audio. Discord apparently just has better signal processing.
Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
by Jaruzel on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:06AM
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> Does Skype even have persistent channels?
Skype for Business does. But... not the Azure/Cloud version; you have to host it on-site, and MS are rapidly replacing Skype with the less feature rich (if that's even possible!) 'MS Teams'.