[times_trw]

>We have been lucky on desktop/laptop that we have added 5 zeros to the available compute, memory, network and GPU capacity. This allows a browser to run slack at the same speed as MIRC, from 2002.

I war running mIRC in 2002. Slack is worse.

[deafpolygon]

Even today, mIRC is still faster than Slack.

Yes! It's still a functioning application on Windows! I use it from time to time.

[tommek4077]

You missed the point. Of course it is still faster. Its like a hundred times smaller doing the same stuff.

[deafpolygon]

I don't think I missed the point at all.

[weinzierl]

When I got Internet I was basically in mIRC and Mosaic and it wasn't clear to me at all that the web will be the big thing and IRC a niche one day. Similarly its a bit funny that mIRC survives to this day but the browser of the day died long ago.

[epolanski]

Eh, I think those posts really fail to highlight the amount of features more slack has and this comes from am a long-lived IRC user that started on quakenet 25 years ago and still uses IRC today (through IRCCloud), mostly for libera (former freenode).

A very tiny and incomplete list: - well working secure file transfer - always on chat history that doesn't rely on you being online or running/buying an irc-bot - voice and video calls - threads - avatars - added layers of security and authentication (critical for business) - plugins/addons (everything on IRC had to be implemented with a chatbot and it was quite limited) - text formatting - support for longer text messages

It's really an apple to oranges comparison to be honest. Yes, they are both fruits, as in they are both used to communicate, but this is where the comparison ends.

[times_trw]

The question is why all those things need to be in the same application.

All those were solved problems 25 years ago, they just needed a basic level of tech literacy to achieve.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Obligatory comic: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuJMkjIXcAcRru9?format=jpg