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by alexandre_m 3903 days ago
Slack has seriously changed the way we work at my company and it's boosted our productivity by 100x.

Yes we had a IRC server for a while and no one was using it, so we always had to use emails for important communications.

You just got to try it to feel it. Some features on paper don't match with the experience of a product.

If you're worried about using it for large community projects (e.g OSS), then maybe IRC is still the better child for that particular audience, although there's already a couple of communities who have successfully moved to Slack entirely (Gopher comes to mind).