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		userbinator on April 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Kaiwa, a Modern Open-Source XMPP Web Clie... I noticed that too, plus the fact that the "Rooms" are preceded by # signs in the list. There's probably some IRC influence.

thebouv on April 8, 2015 [–]

Slack uses that # convention as well (also probably inspired by IRC).

That and the use of hashtags to group things together on Twitter, etc.

I guess it's just a "thing" now.

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