[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