Everyone going "Just move to IRC!!!" clearly has no understanding of *why* other things have been more popular than IRC for the last ~12 years, and why this won't happen.
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That said, I wish it was true. I want IRC to win.
But without people actually wanting the protocol to move forward, servers changing, and new clients being written to handle it, it ain't gonna happen.
@jonty the fact that these people have never experienced real train wifi and yet are somehow still calling the shots on massive networks is always the most demotivating thing
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Everyone going "Just move to IRC!!!" clearly has no understanding of *why* other things have been more popular than IRC for the last ~12 years, and why this won't happen.
Before you reply with "lol IRC is great you don't get it": I say this as a die-hard IRC user who worked for an IRC client company and also ran a large organisation on IRC for the last decade (until we finally gave up and moved to Mattermost this year).
@jonty The way the internet works now is:
* get annoyed and make something new and "better"
* everyone jumps on it
* original owners sell it
* oh no.
I'm just tired of it at this point.
At least someone rickrolled me on discord today.
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@jonty I keep thinking that step 1 of modernising IRC is turning on the chat history extension and step 2 involves your IRC server disconnecting anyone who tries to login with emacs, irssi or basically any IRC client with a featureset stuck in 1993
@erincandescent@erincandescent.net @jonty@chaos.social
step 2 involves your IRC server disconnecting anyone who tries to login with emacs, irssi or basically any IRC client with a featureset stuck in 1993
Please do not do this. Also irssi's featureset is not stuck in 1993, it even supports message-tags!
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