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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by stickshift on Saturday June 23, 2018 @04:19AM (#17380168)
This was literally my first comment when I installed Slack for the first time: Isn't this essentially what IRC did for many years?
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by rasengan on Saturday June 23, 2018 @07:07AM (#17380644)
Exactly. Slack is like IRC without the features.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by Spivak on Saturday June 23, 2018 @02:37PM (#17382671)
Being blind about the actual tech involved, Slack is effectively IRC with a lot of the features that would be provided by external services bundled.
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