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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by arbuge on Saturday June 23, 2018 @07:41AM (#17380785)
> I'm an average person (with 17 years of professional programming career behind me).

I sense a contradiction in this statement...

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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by dmitriid on Saturday June 23, 2018 @01:58PM (#17382439)
You only sense the contradiction because you share a common HN delusion: that you are above average unique non-normal tech bro über man.

This delusion is what stops such people from understanding why Slack/Viber/WhatsApp/iMessage/WeChat etc. won and XMPP and IRC lost.

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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by coatmatter on Saturday June 23, 2018 @04:30PM (#17383284)
What perplexes me is that there are now even more competing messaging services than ever before. This suggests to me that none have won.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by dmitriid on Sunday June 24, 2018 @01:11AM (#17385046)
Indeed. And in the world of competing messaging services the world prefers anything but XMPP or IRC. This suggests to me that they lost.
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