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by j45
1059 days ago
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Is it? Could irc not modernize? Matrix seems more than executing. What if an interpretation veers wildly of course? Slack is fine for many things but if I were to look during the pandemic, Teams our executed to meet people where and how they worked. Slack is also often seen with and without context. Most people have someone pay for their slack for them to keep that precious searchable history. Non profit or free uses uses lost so much value from slack deleting their histories every 90 days unnecessarily. Irc had bots to help. Irc if you all me has inspired alternate experiences be it hashtags based, or a central feed like Twitter. |
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This is the point and the problem. It could but it hasn't. People have been waiting for it to modernize for 20 or 30 years. It took almost 30 years to add a feature people were demanding 20 years ago.
Slack etc. are poor replacements, it's true. No-one is denying that. But for all their flaws it's not hard for them to be better in aggregate when IRC is as stagnant as it is. If IRC refuses to modernise (which it has, generally) these replacements will come, whether they're good or not. I'd really like if we had something good, however we get there. But waiting for IRC to get there has not been fruitful.