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Replying to @rit @nexxylove
Can someone please explain to me why we need Slack altogether? It's closed & proprietary. Why not improve the IRC protocol?
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Various people have tried to improve the IRC protocol; the problem is getting implementations interested.
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Replying to @gsnedders @LeaVerou @rit @nexxylove
How much is protocol and how much is implementation? @IRCCloud does many of the things Slack does.

Jan 27, 2017 · 11:46 PM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @gsnedders @LeaVerou @rit @nexxylove
Though, yeah, having history when you join an existing channel would need protocol changes
Replying to @davidbaron @LeaVerou @rit @nexxylove
Some of what @IRCCloud does it can do because it's centralised and always-connected, though.
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