Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
by bad_user on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:02AM
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Checkout IRCCloud.com ... it's an online service for connecting to IRC and can also connect to Slack too.
The obvious advantages versus classic IRC clients: it's always online and the connection happening through their servers you get good push notifications on mobile.
The obvious advantage versus Slack: they don't own the IRC networks you're connecting to, so if you have issues with IRCCloud you can just change to another client.
It has some missing features, most notably search in archives, but they are working on it.
>> "admitting that Slack beat IRC"
Sure but are we talking about a fundamental limitation of the IRC protocol, or are we simply talking about implementation details that can be fixed?
The obvious advantages versus classic IRC clients: it's always online and the connection happening through their servers you get good push notifications on mobile.
The obvious advantage versus Slack: they don't own the IRC networks you're connecting to, so if you have issues with IRCCloud you can just change to another client.
It has some missing features, most notably search in archives, but they are working on it.
>> "admitting that Slack beat IRC"
Sure but are we talking about a fundamental limitation of the IRC protocol, or are we simply talking about implementation details that can be fixed?