| You can't honestly suggest that IRC and Slack have feature parity. Slack has: * A support for sharing images and files * Rich text formatting * Can easily share code blocks * Rich and granular permission system, suitable for a large organisation * Webhook-based integrations * A rich ecosystem of existing corporate integrations (like calendar integrations) * Accessible web application, that provides access to all of those features * Mobile app (for both android and ios) that provides access to all of those features * Built-in OAuth/OIDC integration, that makes it easy to put it behind a company proxy. * User statuses, avatars, metadata (like real name or team name), timezone-awareness * Adding guests to channels, or bridging channels between servers * Voice calls * Search (!) with history, accessible for any device * Actually, you can write to someone who is not online right now, something IRC doesn't support without a bouncer. * Project management features (lists etc) * Well documented and rich API * Enterprise support And this is just out of the top of my head. |
Also we're not comparing IRC and slack, but slack used from an IRC client and slack used from an electron client.
Perhaps you didn't completely understand what I was saying?
> Mobile app (for both android and ios) that provides access to all of those features
Nothing stops you from using all the clients you want? Again, I suspect you don't fully understand the thing you're hating on so hard.
> Accessible web application, that provides access to all of those features
Slow, and I'd like a disabled user to comment on that. Also not all features work on firefox.
> Voice calls
Doesn't work, but are you really claiming voice calls are more accessible than text? Have you asked a deaf person how they feel about voice calls?
> Actually, you can write to someone who is not online right now, something IRC doesn't support without a bouncer.
Works fine. Ok I realise you didn't read my comment and are just raging for no reason because you read "IRC" and got mad.
> A support for sharing images and files
Worksk fine with localslackirc. You can directly pipe the output of commands into channels
> Rich and granular permission system, suitable for a large organisation > Webhook-based integrations > A rich ecosystem of existing corporate integrations (like calendar integrations) > Adding guests to channels, or bridging channels between servers > Well documented and rich API > Enterprise support
??? This has absolutely nothing to do with the client??
> Rich text formatting
Not supported
> Can easily share code blocks
Works fine, they're saved into text files
> Built-in OAuth/OIDC integration, that makes it easy to put it behind a company proxy.
Works fine with any authentication
> User statuses, avatars, metadata (like real name or team name), timezone-awareness
Avatar not supported, metadata is supported
> Search (!) with history, accessible for any device
Doesn't work, but it's of course accessible with other clients
> Project management features (lists etc)
If you do your project managing on slack, I'm glad I don't work with you :D
I'm also glad I don't work with someone who just reads 1 word and gets triggered into an OT rant, to be honest.