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This. I ran ICQ on a machine with a single core 200 mhz processor and 32 MB (yes that’s an M) and it was fast with more features than Slack.

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In what way did it have “more features than slack”? This feels more like “had other features that I like”

Please read the following:

https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/why-is-this-inte...

You just kinda had to be there. It was ever changing but snappy.

I was there but thank you for the condescending assumption.

You’re quite welcome.

ICQ having more features than Slack isn't really a point of contention, ICQ could do about a zillion things.

I mean it is. I’m contesting it. So unless you have some quantifiable data it is in contention.

I like ICQ. I used it. But I really just don’t agree it had “more” features. It had _different_ features. And those features are just kinda wildly different because of how business and the internet had changed. I just really do not think it is a useful point to try and imply is a weakness of slack somehow.

I don’t understand why you feel the need to defend Slack? Half the time I start a huddle the sound doesn’t work. That was a solved problem in clients in the 00s. File uploads? Better be JPG or it’s a 50/50 shot of it uploading correctly (HEICs? Good luck). The new design moves everything around and somehow makes it harder to find huddles. Discord on the other hand, also an electron app, has pretty much flawless audio/video calls.

Had more features than Slack?? Bro, you had to give someone a number to address you--it couldn't even map your account to an email address.

ICQ having an ICQ-only usernumber that you couldn't cross-resolve to anything else was definitely a feature, and a super nice one.

And? I prefer this over Slack having six different ways to log in, having access to my email address to spam me, and then still not letting me see which servers I belong to in aggregate.

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