[falcolas]

IRC on a server I control, or some slack clone with on-premise hosting. Call me paranoid, but I'm paranoid.

[placeybordeaux]

I still don't understand why everyone is so excited about slack, it really doesn't offer that much more than IRC.

[pavel_lishin]

I use IRC, but come on. It offers a lot more than IRC right out of the box.

* File uploads

* Embedding portions of links (tweets, images)

* A very good search

* Multi-line posts

* Code-formatting, including multi-line posts, and also snippets.

* A mobile client that alerts you when someone mentions you.

* Scroll-back history when you sign on at any time.

* Syncing between multiple clients.

Yes, you could create a bot or modify an irc server to do this, and then find or write a client that will do all that stuff, and an irc bouncer can fill in for a lot of this.

But Slack does it out of the box. Zero extra work needed.

I like IRC, but if you claim that Slack doesn't offer anything more than IRC, you're either delusional or using an incredibly broad definition of IRC.

[ryanlol]

It offers marketing and support, that's about it.

Nobody is selling IRC.

[lwhalen]

cough www.grove.io would like a word with you ;-)

[ryanlol]

Looks cool, but

>We're sorry but Grove isn't currently accepting new customers right now.

I guess with that pricing structure they don't need to.

[lwhalen]

Well shucks, that is news to me. Thanks for the update.