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IRC kind of sucks. The experience is worse. That's why people keep making these different tools - Campfire, HipChat, Slack.

It's not just a technical thing. It's an experience thing. IRC is technically fine, just way too nerdy to be main line of business software these days.



So what you are saying is that the client software is not intuitive.

You do know that all that needs to occur is to make a nice client?


Sure. "all that needs to occur" is pretty useless if it hasn't occurred.


Which means IRC itself doesn't suck, only the UIs we have made so far.


There is nothing wrong with IRC. The IRC clients, you're talking about, are a bit tricky, indeed.

Someone should come up with an IRC client for the non technologically advanced instead of reinventing the wheel.


Twitch.tv is using IRC in their main line of business (their chat). It seems to work fine for them and it is easy to write custom bots etc for it as it is based on an open protocol.


Businesses with nontechnical employees vs FOSS teams is the distinction. Use Slack or whatever for your business if it works for you.




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