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		hardwaresofton on Feb 1, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects But do any of those features feel like they couldn't be built into a good product built around IRC?

justincormack on Feb 1, 2016 [–]

Anything can be built but irc has huge fragmentation of clients, so dev focus is thinly spread, developers have not apparently been interested in changing the ux for decades, and most of the (small number, despite what this article says) users like it how it is.

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