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>Not only does Comics Mode work correctly, but I am even able to download other users' custom Comic Chat Characters (AVB file extensions) The internet was a different place where downloading avatars over a p2p protocol directly from peers and then showing them in a chat application without any additional warning was something that could be done. I'm not just talking about exploiting issues with malicious files (heck,…
Wow. I first came across Microsoft Chat in the late 1990s, at age 11 or 12. To this day it seemed ahead of its time... avatars with multiple options of facial expressions, comic book layout. I miss it.
I wonder how long before Comic Slack
# Appears as ANNAI remember banning people using it as it used to spam channels with CTCPs for the comic book state
Ah, the good old embrace, extend, extinguish strategy; even for something as innocuous as this. I wonder if it was that deeply baked into the company's culture that it unintentionally surfaced in apps like this.
I wish MS would open source this! I’ve noticed it tends to segfault randomly if you connect to the wrong IRC server, so it must be riddled with security holes. However, it beats the heck out of slack on resource utilization and functionality. :-)