Slack is something i value highly right now, yet i would never have thought it took off like it did. IRC has been around for decades, bots that could post any kinds of info to a channel as well and for a user IRC is not that much harder to use than slack, but it&#x27;s definitely more nerdy.
So i kind of feel sad that open stuff like IRC didn&#x27;t really ever become mainstream and now we have a closed platform that at some point will belong to one of the big tech corps and people will start to move off of it again.