I see lot of IRC channels move to Slack and I don't get it, Kubernetes being one of them. Honestly why? I don't mind Slack for a small team but not for a channel with a few thousand user, it's a mess. Furthermore, maybe it's somehow because of my anti-ad addons but slack is generally slow and laggy for me. Takes quite a while to open the channel, lot of features don't work under Firefox.
I used Slack over IRC for a while. Other than group chats and downloads/gifs, it worked pretty well. The private messages thing is solved if you have one machine that stays connected to IRC 100% of the time and you connect to that.
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I see lot of IRC channels move to Slack and I don't get it, Kubernetes being one of them. Honestly why? I don't mind Slack for a small team but not for a channel with a few thousand user, it's a mess. Furthermore, maybe it's somehow because of my anti-ad addons but slack is generally slow and laggy for me. Takes quite a while to open the channel, lot of features don't work under Firefox.
We've had IRC for so long that it makes me sad it hasn't succeeded more.
I used Slack over IRC for a while. Other than group chats and downloads/gifs, it worked pretty well. The private messages thing is solved if you have one machine that stays connected to IRC 100% of the time and you connect to that.