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		derwiki on July 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We built a SaaS company to make email better 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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