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		jayflux on July 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We built a SaaS company to make email better Genuinely curious, why does Slack keep being compared to email, is it not more comparative with chat services like IRC? To me they solve different problems

derwiki on July 24, 2019 [–]

IRC was never used by the general population like email (and now Slack). 10 years ago I worked at a company where the dev team used IRC for chat, and the non-devs didn't use chat because IRC was too daunting.

pier25 on July 24, 2019 | [–]

We have Slack at work but only devs use it. Non devs prefer sticking to email and Whatsapp.

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