[klint]

Hi, I wrote the Wired article in question. I hadn't heard about IRCv3, but it does sound like it would plug some of the holes in IRC that Slack users complain about. It wouldn't really have been a good fit for this article, since I was mostly focused on the two Slack-alikes with most traction, at least according to Black Duck's data (an imperfect measure to be sure) and IRCv3. As for why I didn't mention IRC in general, well, I alluded to it in the first sentence, but as many other people have mentioned, IRC just doesn't hold a lot of appeal in the business world, for various reasons.

[jlgaddis]

Yet, in the open-source world, IRC is one of the primary mediums for community support and developer collaboration.

[yarrel]

> Black Duck

Black Duck are not any kind of neutral source in free software matters.