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Isn't another huge thing that Slack solves the need to set up a local client? Why is that not addressed in this article, I wonder if the author really doesn't see it as a problem?

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There are lots of web-based IRC clients out there

Which is part of the problem. People don't want "a lot of web-based IRC clients", they want only one and it has to be amazing.

The things slack can do (at least according to this article) that IRC can't are do small it's negligible. If slack is web-based, then what is to stop someone from making a web-based IRC client with all the features and good UX design of slack?

And there is: http://shout-irc.com

IMO Shout is a UI improvement over Slack for the sheer fact that it is 100% customizable.

You realise you just increased traffic on their demo by like 1000%? :-)

Pretty nice though.

shout-irc looks good. do they have persistent logs?

> what is to stop someone from making a web-based IRC client with all the features and good UX design of slack?

Absolutely nothing. Nothing has stopped anyone from making a fully featured IRC client with good UX. Yet there still isn't one.

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