This sort of app gets rewritten every two years. People act like it’s the second coming every time. IRC with persistence? Oh that’s acana, slack, hipchat, what

This sort of app gets rewritten every two years. People act like it’s the second coming every time. IRC with persistence? Oh that’s acana, slack, hipchat, whatever this year’s VC-backed boondoggle is. I haven’t seen anything new after IRC beyond ICQ. Just like movies now. Same meh, new packaging.