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Comment by kolev | Hacker News Reader

Can we go back to IRC now, please! Slack is not only distracting, proprietary, but it is also pretty expensive. Let the mere mortals use it, but we should stay away!

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I don't think IRC quite offers the feature set that Slack users would be expecting, does it?

I'm not talking about users who care about custom Emojis and animated gifs. That's why I said - let the mere mortals use it; we can do better!

Is this actually the sort of people that get attracted to HN? Thinking of others as "mere mortals" and yourselves as gods?

Sad picture.

I was joking. Sometimes emojis help as we're missing a whole communication channel in here (body language).

Probably not in that condescending way, but it is useful to keep in mind that people are fundamentally different from you. The trouble is when you think they are inferior beings (their tech skills on the other hand are inferior, no reason to not state that plainly).

For what it is worth I have coded Erlang at work and am quite partial to cat pictures, myself.

Well, let's talk about the reality now. By definition, most people are mediocre, not very smart, not very healthy, not very pretty, etc. Most! That's whom Slack targets - most.

That cow left the barn a while ago.

Oh, yeah? You haven't heard of Let's Chat [0], for example?

[0] http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/

P.S. To clarify, Let's Chat is not IRC-based, but it's slackish and supports XMPP.

That's awesome. Would love to do a container for it.

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