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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by thrower123 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @09:03PM (#20120718)
The underpinnings are a step in the right direction, but the UX is a dumpster fire, which makes me pine for the usability of the lesser dumpster fire of Lync/Skype for Business.

God forbid you ever need to be doing two IM conversations at a time, or attend a meeting and carry on a backchannel conversation concurrently.

It's apparently too difficult to do a MDI interface in Electron.

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by teh_klev on Thursday June 06, 2019 @09:24PM (#20120829)
To be honest there's just four of us all working remotely so I've not bumped into this. But I take your points onboard. I will admit I thought the screen sharing capability in Teams was fairly poor, but it's not something we do often and can resort to TeamViewer or something like that if need be. But I do realise that's not an option for folks working in a regimented and heavily controlled environment such as a bank.

Also we're in our mid 40's to 50's so perhaps there's a generational discipline we have with these toys that the young guns may not have :) Don't get me wrong, I was a complete asshole on the college VAX messaging thing back in my teens :)