[orev]

IRC is a protocol, not an app. Many apps can connect to it. An app can show previews if it wants to.

[warp_factor]

Good point.

What I meant is use an open protocol to which simple applications (or whatever you prefer to use) can be plugged.

Because my company uses Slack I now have to use their stupid UI proprietary implementation.

I'm also annoyed that popular open source projects like Kubernetes moved to Slack because it's "discriminatory" to use IRC apparently.

[eschaton]

The IRC protocol is entirely open. You can make extensions to do anything you want.

[radlad]

> Because my company uses Slack I now have to use their stupid UI proprietary implementation.

Have you tried wee-slack or similar?

[noodlesUK]

Discriminatory? Link?

[vthriller]

Here's an example from Mozilla:

> While we still use it heavily, IRC is an ongoing source of abuse and harassment for many of our colleagues

http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/04/26/synchronous-text/?s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763276

[qwsxyh]

So, no.

[hbosch]

Many IRC clients, in fact, do. So, yes, kind of.

[setr]

So, mu. The question was incorrect.

[tobias2014]

Quassel IRC (an IRC client) does, for example.