alt Hacker NewsIRC is good in that it is open, durable, and slow moving. All of those points are intentional features that make it a stable cockroach in a nuclear world.
I briefly entertained building a modern chat experience on top of IRC when I came to this realization.
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bilekas • today at 6:09 PM
IRC really is good. It's reliable too, but it really fell behind the times and never pushed forward with additions to the spec and such. When the clients and libraries tapered off too it just felt like it froze.
radlad • today at 5:39 PM
IRCv3 aimed to do this, with mixed results.
Slack was originally a side project built by a game dev company as a set of scripts on top of IRC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software)#History