Bring Your Own Client

This is like reading a time capsule back to the ideas of bringing your own data to applications. The web has the same issue, but it’s around open standards and open protocols. For those that have been around computers long enough you may remember other approaches like OS/2 which started everything with the document and then applications acted on it.

With all that said, I do find it frustrating for example that Slack still doesn't support multiple chat windows yet dozens of IRC clients have done that for decades. We seem to always be trading off various forms of lock-in.