Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would go for IRC as well only someone just paid $27 billion for a > glorified IRC server so maybe it should stay for now. IRC is still very widely used, and there isn't a replacement for it. Slack, despite its similarity to IRC, doesn't have an open protocol for clients, and requires you use the vendor's hosting for servers. Each of those is, separately, a reason for many uses of IRC. -- Cos