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by mping 3037 days ago
Obviously slack got something right, otherwise people would still use irc. It always amazes me how we devs fail to ack the business side of a success case as slack. And if any contender in the space fail to identify what slack got right they won't thrive.

Maybe it was the ui, or some particular features, but they did resonate with the users. And now they are the benchmark that all the others will compare to.
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giancarlostoro 3037 days ago
Same issues as IRC are same ones XMPP suffers from... Decentralisation becomes confusing and the benefits are not obvious to regular end users. They just want to be on one network and download the "app" for that network. Slack and Discord fulfill these roles. IRC and XMPP have a dozen clients and no default server to join. I still think a well intentioned IRC client could do wonders for IRC.
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notjustanymike 3037 days ago
My wife uses Slack. My 68 year old parents use Slack. They have no idea what IRC even is. Slack made an accessible IRC.
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