The issue is that people want to use things backed by a slick marketing campaign. This is why we have Slack instead of IRC, Facebook instead of talking to your friends the old fashioned way, etc.
Consider in order to have offline history I'm logged in permanently via. tmux session on a server which I connect to with Mosh. Weechat is a barely okay client (totally not suitable for non-technical users and Mosh still has significant delay).
What do you expect the non-engineering part of the company to do?
> We have slack instead of IRC, because IRC sucks.
Just the other day, a friend created a Slack channel (or whatever it's called) for a group of friends to plan a trip, and then promptly set up an IRC tunnel so he wouldn't have to use it. :-)
I don't have an opinion myself; I just find it to be amusing.
We have slack instead of IRC, because IRC sucks.
Consider in order to have offline history I'm logged in permanently via. tmux session on a server which I connect to with Mosh. Weechat is a barely okay client (totally not suitable for non-technical users and Mosh still has significant delay).
What do you expect the non-engineering part of the company to do?