They can crack down on alternative clients at any time they want. You are living on borrowed time. A guest who is wild camping in their gated community walled garden private property.
I also agree with you. It was painful when e.g. Twitter basically killed 3rd party apps.
What happens here is that I don’t see any significant portion of Slack users moving to IRC anytime soon. Therefore, if you’re forced to use Slack, you should know that alternative clients are available as of today.
I’m just trying to show that there are alternative ways to use Slack for those who are forced to use it. If you and/or your company actively use IRC then my suggestions obviously don’t apply to you.
Many of the paint points are solved when using alternative clients. Alternative clients will allow you to, for example:
* Use Slack on an ancient computer
* Use TTS systems
* Not use threads (you can just dump everything in the channel)
* Not have link previews
* Use keyboard only
* Get a less distracting experience
I'm also an IRC user and I like it but I just wanted to point out the post isn't fair with Slack if only one client is evaluated.
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