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Re:Slack have blocked using the website on mobile by cdiddy2 on Saturday December 28, 2019 @04:28PM (#21901869)
IRC is missing two major things.

1. If you are logged out you miss the history of conversations

2. Usability for non tech people. Not everyone in chat has technical prowess, I know IRC seems simple but its too intimidating for some.

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Re:Slack have blocked using the website on mobile by u801e on Sunday December 29, 2019 @12:54PM (#21907285)
> Usability for non tech people. Not everyone in chat has technical prowess, I know IRC seems simple but its too intimidating for some.

I communicated via IRC with a lot of non-technical people in the '90s and 2000s. Most people just used mIRC and connected to the default IRC server and went from there.

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Re:Slack have blocked using the website on mobile by hombre_fatal on Saturday December 28, 2019 @06:03PM (#21902427)
> Usability for non tech people

It's not just non-technical people who expect good UX.

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