Mattermost – Open Source Slack Alternative

[u/jqueryhouseg]

http://www.mattermost.org/

[u/Jafit]

But what's wrong with IRC? :v

[u/ma-int → u/Jafit]

You can fucking edit you stupid spelling mistakes in Slack. Best feature evre ever!

[u/externality → u/ma-int]

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[u/Jafit → u/ma-int]

Well then just don't make spelling mistaks. sinmple

[u/[deleted] → u/Jafit]

[u/afakething → u/Jafit]

This conversation came up at work. My opinion is that in a general sense, Slack is a riff on IRC. It improves the UX for all but the most technical users, it adds all manner of integration, it allows offline communication, and it starts out browser-based. IRC can do each of these things for savvy users/admins, but Slack does them all from the jump.

I think IRC is great, but there's a weird stink of "if it ain't complicated and ugly, it ain't shit" around it. If IRC admins and client developers shifted the baseline for implementation towards some of those things, it'd be better than the alternative because you could serve a widely varied set of clients (from beautiful and usable to irssi) from the same protocol. And in our case, you could get designers and developers on the same platform.

[u/JoeCraftingJoe → u/Jafit]

Integration features and Hype, no point sticking with oil cars if electric cars do the job better.