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by jamesgeck0 2595 days ago
IRCCloud is okay, but the UX/UI isn't anywhere near as nice as Slack.
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jeena 2595 days ago
Why would you need to use Slack (or IRC) when there is

    https://rocket.chat/
    https://zulipchat.com/
    https://matrix.org/
    https://mattermost.com/
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Crinus 2594 days ago
Probably because the few people who want to use alternatives to Slack are spread among these four alternatives instead of using one and sticking with it.

And honestly, of all the alternatives, IRC is by far the most popular one (and the other alternatives have IRC bridges) hence the most likely to stay around the longest.

Also the simplest to implement, which helps a lot too.

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kuschku 2595 days ago
That may be true, but it's good enough that it should be easily usable by developers.

And I'm personally working on Quasseldroid, improving its UI to make it much more usable.

If you have suggestions on how to make Quasseldroid usable for the people that refuse to use IRC, I'd love to hear them :)

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jamesgeck0 2594 days ago
> it's good enough that it should be easily usable by developers.

Sure, but the reason all the developers at my workplace use Slack is because we have to communicate with a lot of people who aren't developers.

Slack's good UX extends beyond the basic chat interface to configuration, administration, and initial signup. It's significantly easier for someone nontechnical to toss money at Slack to get a new private space than it is with IRC. The first page of "IRC hosting" search results on Google for me are mostly shell accounts; nothing turnkey and professional looking that a business person could/would use.

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