[f0ff]

>Why is migration so hard?

Why would anyone make it easy

[dijit]

I think there should be a new computer science law (if this one doesn't exist already):

Things that are easy to migrate from get replaced by things that are hard to migrate from, eventually.

IRC is incredibly easy to migrate from.

[ludjer]

IRC is easy to migrate from since there is nothing to migrate other then chat history. IRC is also missing so many features that slack provides out the box. And a law like that would not work since you would need to write complicated transformation scripts to transform between services. Also not all services are a 1-1 mapping. I like IRC but it has its limitations. That is why slack succeeded where IRC did not.

[tpxl]

> And a law like that would not work

The parent meant a law as in "a law of physics", not a piece of legislation.

[x86_64Ubuntu]

We can call it the "Law Of Lotus Notes". I'm not sure if it's hard to migrate from, I can only assume that it is impossible to migrate from.