randomwizard<p>Was reading old discussions about why did Slack win out over IRC (for some definition of win?)</p><p><a href="https://tedium.co/2017/10/17/irc-vs-slack-chat-history/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tedium.co/2017/10/17/irc-vs-sl</span><span class="invisible">ack-chat-history/</span></a></p><p>Found these quotes interesting.</p><p>"Why is it, out of all the prominent internet protocols in use during the early ’90s, only two of them—email and the World Wide Web—have managed to hold on in a way where most people use them on a regular basis" -- Ernie Smith 2017</p><p>"Why did slack win?<br>Because whenever somebody asked for:<br>* 24/7 presence, the reply was "you can do that with a bouncer"<br>* backlog, the reply was "you can do that with a bouncer"<br>* full text search, the reply was "that's up to the client implementation"<br>* file sharing, the reply was "it's already possible with XDCC"</p><p>and so on and so forth.</p><p>Basically, it's not that Slack is great, it's because IRC as a whole just refused to adapt to what users actually wanted/needed." -- em6m 2020</p><p>Not saying I agree exactly, just interesting.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/irc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>irc</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/discord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discord</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/slack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slack</span></a></p>