[evocatus]

Slack. We've gone from terminal IRC clients running on practically no memory, to shipping entire Chrome/Electron installations that allow you to conveniently log in with a button that opens your real Chrome browser, so that you can go back to Electron and accomplish the exact same things IRC did, except with slower load times, frequent service outages, eternally shifting UIs and redesigns, memory footprints that stretch even a 16GB system, and creative reinterpretations of the input field widget.

Oh. And emoji.

Too bad systems for globally coordinating the development of software never existed in the past. I wonder where we would be without Slack.

[cylon13]

I agree with the sentiment about Slack being slow and bad. It’s not exactly the same as IRC though. There’s voice chat, screensharing, I can drag and drop video files without worrying about hosting, etc. People choose Slack over IRC for a reason, it’s just too bad it’s a private centralized thing written as a resource hogging electron behemoth.

[aaaaaaaaata]

> People choose Slack over IRC for a reason

because they don't know tech.

[pc86]

Plenty of people who "know tech" chose Slack. Don't give them a pass.

[6stringmerc]

Where would we be? Still slapping each other with large trout.

[mindcrime]

/me larts @6stringmerc with a very large trout.

[markus_zhang]

Wait until you start using Teams...

[6stringmerc]

Atlassian would like a word with you about bloat and garbage functionality supremacy.

[markus_zhang]

Yeah been there and being there too. I'm kinda used to confluence finally because nothing else beats it yet.