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Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by curiousDog on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:09PM (#19082958)
Those who think Slack is just IRC are the same ones who have been predicting the year of the Linux desktop
Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by kinkrtyavimoodh on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:08AM (#19083142)
And who think Dropbox is just rsync + crontab.
Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by lugg on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:14PM (#19089889)
Yea except I'm neither of these people but good job on the strawman arguments.

Slack is nicer than IRC to use. Nobody here is debating that. Slack solves a heap of problems with IRC.

My only point of contention is that there is zero argument for it using the resources it does. None of the mentioned solutions require any more resources than IRC consumes.

We just have a big heaping pile of electron nobody wants to acknowledge as the source of the problem.