I'd love to agree. But with IRC you've no guarantee, for instance, that an offline user will receive notifications when they sign in (plus multi client handling).
Slack has search for history, which is huge. No more "eh we talked about it".
Onprem is great. But it's a hindrance for quick adoption.
I'd love if an open system would win. I've no love for Slack and don't use it. (Have used hipchat; what a UI mess like all of their products.) But I guess no one stepped up with an IRC-based platform that could compete.
Slack has search for history, which is huge. No more "eh we talked about it".
Onprem is great. But it's a hindrance for quick adoption.
I'd love if an open system would win. I've no love for Slack and don't use it. (Have used hipchat; what a UI mess like all of their products.) But I guess no one stepped up with an IRC-based platform that could compete.