Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again

Re:Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again by ctvo on Monday May 20, 2019 @11:10AM (#19961132)

There's more to a product than a protocol and foundational similarities. Whenever someone uses this to distract away from the success of Slack, for example, I question if they realize that UX, design, ease are all part of a product and can be independently innovated on.

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Re:Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again by hombre_fatal on Monday May 20, 2019 @11:25AM (#19961331)

Reminds me when you start working on a side project, get a PoC working on the weekend (like a to-be application/website that for now kinda works on the command line), and tell yourself "alright, the hard part is over!"

Then you realize you only finished the 0.01%.

That's about where IRC seemed to have stopped. "We're done. The clients can do the hard stuff that users actually want."

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Re:Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again by falcolas on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:19PM (#19962659)

Naw, IRC was v1. It worked quite well, was well thought out, and standardized. Perfect? No. Good enough for the time and use-case? Yes.

Slack and its kin are v2, capturing the requirements that have changed with the changing userbase. I only wish they were standardized, so we could have non-first party implementations (with the benefits that come with that).

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Re:Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again by javagram on Monday May 20, 2019 @02:21PM (#19963401)

https://ircv3.net/ does exist although i’m not sure how competitive it can be.

It’s hard to see a future for IRC or something like it to beat the proprietary alternatives unfortunately.

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Re:Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again by carlmr on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:35PM (#19962838)

Isn't mattermost an open source version of slack with most of the important features?

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