Re:Slack's bait and switch
by zwily on Monday March 12, 2018 @09:02AM
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“Sync’d read-state across multiple devices” is what sold me on Slack years ago. I had been trying to simulate it for a long time in IRC using various bouncers, but it never worked very well and was hard to set up for non-technical people at work.
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I use irccloud for persistence in IRC, but it's not as good as slack overall.
Work had a private irc server that required all sorts of client certificates to join, forget non-technical people -- it wasn't very good for technical people either!
Try IRCCloud.
Re:Slack's bait and switch
by moosingin3space on Monday March 12, 2018 @10:08AM
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Which is a centralized, proprietary, web-based client. All three of which HN loves to hate Slack for.
It does have a really easy way to extract your conversations as a log file though. An OSS version of irccloud you could just "apt-get install blahblah" with may have stemmed the rise of slack, at least in companies.
Re:Slack's bait and switch
by moosingin3space on Monday March 12, 2018 @03:11PM
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I expect this niche will be filled by Matrix in the near future. Host a Matrix homeserver + Riot.im web UI, then employees can use Riot mobile apps and any Matrix-supporting client.
For the record, I don't like Slack very much. I just disagree that IRC or IRCCloud are acceptable alternatives.
IRCCloud was is its infancy when Slack came on the scene. If it had existed back then, maybe we wouldn’t have switched? I don’t know, but it’s way too late now. (I have never used it, and am just assuming the read state sync works as well as Slack, which may be a big assumption.)