[fragmede]

they're a text editor and a chat client, and a 30 year old computer can run vim/emacs and irssi just fine.

[fkyoureadthedoc]

brb, just switching my 100k employee company from Teams to IRC, should be quick and easy, everyone is going to love it.

[alemanek]

If they are on MacOS they may make you their king. I still have PTSD from the last job that I had to use Teams on a Mac.

[KomoD]

Teams is awful on all platforms, I don't ever want to touch it again

[whstl]

They might indeed. There are some very nice native IRC clients for macOS that are fast and good...

[Gormo]

Excellent idea! You'll have a mature, open standard protocol under the hood, with no vendor lock-in, excellent extensibility, and great modern frontends like The Lounge (https://thelounge.chat/) or Convos (https://convos.chat/) to choose from (and you can choose).

[mark38848]

I would love it. I would also love for it to switch to silence instead.