[Jumziey]

Whaaat!? I who always thought irc was the on-prem Slack alternative. Its a pretty cool thing that recently got created (around 1988). Try it out! Will blow you mind straight out of the water tbh. There's even some public chat rooms you can hang around in.

[wild_preference]

IRC: No code-block formatting. Can't even receive messages when you're offline, out of the box. No message delete/edit. No built-in file hosting, must upload elsewhere and link it. No drag-and-drop. No real ergonomics in general. Way behind on community-building/-management features. Only particularly liked by the sort of person who considers tweaking their .conkyrc as a Friday well-spent.

I hang out on freenode every day. But I have higher expectations of chat in 2018 when it comes to what I would choose for an actual organization. So does everyone else.

IRC isn't blowing anyone's mind. Especially that first time they try to reply to someone but their message is never received because the other person closed their laptop.