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What planet are you living on where you can say with a straight face that IRC is a senior-friendly thing to use?

Do people who advocate for IRC even understand what made Slack successful? Seriously. Stay relevant or you are gonna get left in the dust when the world moves on.

> GIF problem

GIFs are a feature, not a bug.

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GIFs are a useless feature at best, and a distraction at worst.

Don't get me wrong, I love using them, but they ain't exactly a productivity boost.

well lucky for you, Slack has a solution for that:

https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/565314985405206529?lang=e...

You're aggressive and vehement.

It's not me. The post uses those terms. It seems you didn't read the post.

I'm not part of your "world". Some people complain about Slack. I say IRC is better.

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