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Morgawr on April 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Curing Our Slack Addiction

Why can't you do it through the web interface of a company-backed IRC network? There's literally no difference there, IRC is just a protocol, you can still wrap around your own local stack with registration, email notification, fancy UI (I know UI != UX) and auto-invite system or whatnot.

I just don't get it...

paulddraper on April 22, 2016 [–]

"you can still wrap around your own local stack with registration, email notification, fancy UI (I know UI != UX) and auto-invite system or whatnot"

Or pay someone to do that and maintain it for you.

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