Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by souprock on Thursday June 06, 2019 @07:19PM (#20120184)

I use it all the time at work. Along with Mattermost (yuck) it is a solution that works on a secured network. If your computer can reach something like Slack, your computer is exposed.

At home I recently used it to chat with open source developers about a bug. They found the cause, then my son and I fixed it.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by rvense on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:49AM (#20122486)

I'm very curious why you dislike Mattermost, my company has been considering moving over from Slack, but we've not spent a lot of time evaluating it - they seem very similar on the surface?

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by souprock on Friday June 07, 2019 @07:34PM (#20129543)

You might be happy with Mattermost. It's not IRC, and that is reason enough for me to grumble about it.

Anything that help to break the addiction of putting trade secrets on internet-connected computers is an improvement over slack.

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