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Re:DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’ by mdorazio on Thursday March 07, 2019 @06:01PM (#19333502)
I feel like I'm going crazy here. Wee-slack looks exactly like IRC did 20 years ago, except IRC was free. This is madness.
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Re:DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’ by ants_a on Friday March 08, 2019 @04:38AM (#19336250)
Maybe if IRC people would have been able to evolve the system to add persistent history we wouldn't be where we are now. And no, sshing to a server to run irssi in screen is not, and never was, an acceptable answer.
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Re:DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’ by syn0byte on Friday March 08, 2019 @09:22AM (#19337663)
Not until you wrap it in electron anyway.

hacking up and rebranding an IRCd is a tried and true startup method. Napster, Slack, Discord...

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