Tony Morris

But it's not a programmers phenomena per se. Humans are just overwhelmed with the complexity of software and the other 7 billion people on

Programmers are wooed by fashion easily. In many other contexts, this blatant gullibility is not tolerated profoundly.

I only ever use irc, but Slack is much easier to use on both mobile and desktop and has some great features irc will never have.

I genuinely do not understand how it can be said that it is easier. What features? Pretty pictures?

You literally need just one click to gave it on your phone or pc, uncluding the full necessary backend. irc is super involved in comparison.

Lotsa features incl persistent searchable history, user+access mgmt, integration, notifications, an equivalent of a bnc, and yes pictures.

I definitely do not want these things in a protocol. I have all these with IRC, to the side, where they belong, and superior in feature.

Slack is not only a protocol, it's a whole system, and it has things that irc cannot have because it's just a protocol.