do people prefer this over the IRC

I’m conflicted. I like that I can login and view past messages. Can’t do that with irc. And can also view history.

I’m ambivalent. I was a hardcore IRC user in the 90s. Thinking about that and then this, I see few downsides to this over that.

yeah, I see downsides also. But it also shows how dated IRC is and how it should improve.

IRC with a bouncer to keep history isn’t so bad…and #C03S1KBA2 is logged, and should be searchable “in theory"

yeah, but it isn’t as “user friendly”. Most of the irc history I’ve seen is just a big pile of plain text and you have to search using cmd-f on the browser. It pales in comparison to slack’s search.

http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html

maybe this means there is an opportunity to build a service with better UX on top of irc.

@roberto: Have you seen https://www.irccloud.com/? It is probably the easiest IRC client with history there is. Unfortunately it is still missing proper search.

yeah

And unfortunately it looks like it is barely developed

don’t get me wrong, I love irc. I’m sentimentally attached to it.

would love to see it get some UX love tho

I didn’t know what I was missing, honestly, until I started using Slack at work.

Especially I dislike that I have to have separate windows open for different Slack communities. Irc and Flowdock support multiple servers/organizations in one client.

hmmm, I have all the slack communities in one client.

including work slack

Is that with OS X or Windows client? Browser version allows to switch the account but that is not much use as I can't see by a glance which channels are active

oss

OSX

in fact, i’m using two accounts in one client