> Really, if you think IRC is so similar to Slack, then why are so many companies, organizations flocking to it? There has to be a reason.
If HN has higher discussion quality than reddit, why are not all devs on HN instead? If Linux is better for servers, why are people still starting projects on Windows? etc...
The power of marketing, directly or word-of-mouth, is important. And a decentral community can never do as perfect marketing as a company can do.
There are IRC clients and apps, and third party integrations as powerful as Slack, and as easy to use. But you have to find them, install them separately – there’s no single combined effort to market a single "just works" solution, yet ;)
If HN has higher discussion quality than reddit, why are not all devs on HN instead? If Linux is better for servers, why are people still starting projects on Windows? etc...
The power of marketing, directly or word-of-mouth, is important. And a decentral community can never do as perfect marketing as a company can do.
There are IRC clients and apps, and third party integrations as powerful as Slack, and as easy to use. But you have to find them, install them separately – there’s no single combined effort to market a single "just works" solution, yet ;)