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I wish people would be able to keep things simple and still use IRC instead of bullshit "productivity" apps like Slack

I thought slack WAS IRC.

EDIT: no, all proprietary

"While no longer using an IRC backend, Slack offers many IRC-like features"...

> I wish people would be able to keep things simple and still use IRC

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> i have a linode box that runs irssi in a tmux session 24/7 and that’s all it’s for.

Make of that what you will.

I wish people would just use sockets to communicate. Way simpler than a heavy slow burdensome protocol like IRC.

does irc show link previews?

IRC is a protocol, not an app. Many apps can connect to it. An app can show previews if it wants to.

So, no.

So, mu. The question was incorrect.

Quassel IRC (an IRC client) does, for example.

Many IRC clients, in fact, do. So, yes, kind of.

Good point.

What I meant is use an open protocol to which simple applications (or whatever you prefer to use) can be plugged.

Because my company uses Slack I now have to use their stupid UI proprietary implementation.

I'm also annoyed that popular open source projects like Kubernetes moved to Slack because it's "discriminatory" to use IRC apparently.

The IRC protocol is entirely open. You can make extensions to do anything you want.

Discriminatory? Link?

Here's an example from Mozilla:

> While we still use it heavily, IRC is an ongoing source of abuse and harassment for many of our colleagues

> Because my company uses Slack I now have to use their stupid UI proprietary implementation.

Have you tried wee-slack or similar?

Hm, I am definitely not sure if you are joking.

some clients can, yes.

Yeah, long before Slack was a thing even.

Do you really want your client to load a URI just because someone dropped it in a channel you're in?

Slack client doesn't load URIs, the server does