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		stavros on April 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communi... Because adding a feature to a standard means you have to get everyone on board. Slack as an IRC client would basically be Slack as it is now, and the server protocol would be an implementation detail.

kuschku on April 11, 2017 [–]

Except, we got everyone on board. Every major client and server dev, every major bot dev and every major network.

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