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Good point.

What I meant is use an open protocol to which simple applications (or whatever you prefer to use) can be plugged.

Because my company uses Slack I now have to use their stupid UI proprietary implementation.

I'm also annoyed that popular open source projects like Kubernetes moved to Slack because it's "discriminatory" to use IRC apparently.



The IRC protocol is entirely open. You can make extensions to do anything you want.


> Because my company uses Slack I now have to use their stupid UI proprietary implementation.

Have you tried wee-slack or similar?


Discriminatory? Link?


Here's an example from Mozilla:

> While we still use it heavily, IRC is an ongoing source of abuse and harassment for many of our colleagues

http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/04/26/synchronous-text/?s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763276




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