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IRC is still the best place to get help quickly (if you know the right place to ask), especially for some more esoteric tech niches...
The niche things are normally what I have the most trouble with and will just wait for a stackoverflow or mailing list response
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Even terminal based weechat is perfectly capable of rendering emojis.
emojis are old school, i don't use anything unless it has full gif support now. Gotta have a way of putting up baby yoda sipping gifs when people ask how i'm doing
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Many of the IRC networks offer a "cloak" if you register your nickname, and of course it's trivial to connect via a VPN or via Tor (if your network allows it).
Side-note on the cloak: You'll want to make sure you're identified before you join any channels, or everyone will still see your IP. The best way to do this on networks that support it is to use SASL.
Cloaks apply uniformally but will not mask the last bit of your reversed hostname. So it might leak info about your ISP or region but not your full IP.
What you stated is true of vanity vhosts though. Which will mask the whole record only if you’re logged in. :)
I use it for, err, online chat. If I want real-time chat I do it there.
None of the other platforms offer anything other than fragmentation of the user base as far as I'm concerned.
I don't care about the fact that like, you need to run a client all the time, ten year old me was leaving his computer on before he knew what a server even was, I do it anyway because I self host a ton of stuff (for basically the same reasons, almost everything else is proprietary and wanky in some way).
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Slack is just too hard to understand. I still don't get it. I have to go to a webpage and enter a server / channel name. I have to create a password for each one, if I get approved it then takes me to a slack web client with no obvious way to open the chat in the app. If you install the app on a different machine, you have to add everything again. It's not a good user experience.
I think some of us geeks have an unusual perspective on what's confusing and what's straightforward or easy. I've been repeatedly told GH issues is "too confusing" or "too technical" versus Asana and Jira for the non-developers (WT actual F?!?! Seriously this one baffles me entirely, I can't even begin to wrap my head around it) and find most social media sites extremely confusing, especially considering how little t…
Have I already learned how to use something with approximately the same functionality? → [New Thing] is too confusing! [Old Thing] is intuitive!
It's a very simple flowchart and almost everyone in the world uses it.
I've used IRC pretty much forever. I use it for, err, online chat. If I want real-time chat I do it there. None of the other platforms offer anything other than fragmentation of the user base as far as I'm concerned. I don't care about the fact that like, you need to run a client all the time, ten year old me was leaving his computer on before he knew what a server even was, I do it anyway because I self host a ton o…