>Are you serious? I think lots of people do. I think it's one of the draws of Slack.
No it isn't. What it implies is what people want: persistent logs, signing in from their phone logging them into the same session as signing in from their desktop, etc.
>Is that what Slack does? Whatever they do, I think it's what people want. Indeed it is not an experience offered by IRC, perhaps because "most IRC servers don't want" to, sure.
Slack has a much higher barrier to entry than IRC and most people using it are private companies.
IRC servers are publicly accessible and publicly accessed. They have existed for much longer. If Freenode stored every message ever sent on Freenode that would be a nightmare.
Also, 'only if you're a nerd' is very silly. We're talking about this in the context of open source software. Everyone that is capable of non-trivially contributing to open source software is more than capable of operating an IRC client.
In fact, if you can't work out IRC then you're almost certainly too silly to be a programmer.
>Only if you're a nerd. Took me 5 minutes to get started with Slack for our company and managing it is a piece of cake.
Slack requires you to make an account on their website, a new account for every Slack group. IRC you can just join - pick a nickname and type the server's address and you're in.
IRC is completely trivially easy to use, Slack is not.
Setting up an e-mail address and a password is not an incredibly complex task. I have 3 seperate slack groups that are set up just for friends to chat.
Besides which, on most IRC servers, you're going to be using NickServ anyway, which is more complex a flow than setting up a user on Slack.
> What it implies is what people want: persistent logs, signing in from their phone logging them into the same session as signing in from their desktop, etc.
Okay, to me that is the same thing as 'persistent sessions', but without belaboring the point... can IRC do those things? Right, it depends on the server and client. What servers and clients can? I think it's pretty rare, if it exists.
If your answer is "well, IRC _could_ do that, if only more reosurces were invested in it to make it so", okay, but so what?
You're missing the point. This subthread is not about what IRC does do, it's about whether a chat protocol with support for persistent sessions, search, etc. can still be simple.
Maybe actually read the thread next time? So don't "so what?" me. This isn't about whether IRC can do those things.
Okay, good luck convincing people not to use slack because some hypothetical thing that doesn't exist could have the features they want, while being simpler than Slack and open source. That's your point?
No it isn't. What it implies is what people want: persistent logs, signing in from their phone logging them into the same session as signing in from their desktop, etc.
>Is that what Slack does? Whatever they do, I think it's what people want. Indeed it is not an experience offered by IRC, perhaps because "most IRC servers don't want" to, sure.
Slack has a much higher barrier to entry than IRC and most people using it are private companies.
IRC servers are publicly accessible and publicly accessed. They have existed for much longer. If Freenode stored every message ever sent on Freenode that would be a nightmare.