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Regarding IRC... I started using Gitter a few months ago and have used various IRC clients for over 20 years.

I was blown away on how much better the UX was in Gitter compared to IRC. The history, the notifications, the markup, the UI...you name it.

And Gitter is a pretty crappy client. If there was a nicely implemented client, it would be even more impressive.

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I've been using Gitter for a few months now, I think it's just polished enough to use consistently. If it were even slightly unstable I'd have to stop using it.

Until recently, Gitter had some weird bug where it the process would be in the background after you closed it, and you thinking that it was gone, would try to fire up another one it would just go to a background process or something.

But Gitter has other issues - mostly of the UX kind. One of them is that you can search for other rooms, but you can't really save that search. You have to start over everytime. Also, the default of sending you an email for every freaking message when you star a room is absolutely atrocious.

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