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by jonathonf 2490 days ago
Slack is essentially IRC rebranded with a pretty UI, so I'd say yes.

Rebrand anything with a pretty UI and someone in an "office job" will want to use it...
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azinman2 2490 days ago
There are some pretty critical differences from IRC:

- history (this is probably the biggest)

- in-line replies

- 3rd party integrations

- gif/photos/files

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giggles_giggles 2490 days ago
It's funny to see 3rd party integrations listed when IRC was barely more than telnet and was stupid simple to interact with programmatically. I wrote my first IRC bot, from zero knowledge to functioning in the channel, in 45 minutes. Try to do THAT with the Slack Integrations API or whatever. And that was when I was still learning how to code!
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ukz 2489 days ago
Slack's webhook integration is super easy I got my bot up and running in a minute.
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