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IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

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Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

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Post by wencha »

prawnsalad wrote: post #25
beefhash wrote: post #17

As a routine user of IRC: This scares – nay, terrifies – me. London Trust Media is colossal. They seem to have control over freenode and Snoonet, two networks basically unchallenged in their niche. Snoonet hasn't been doing so well since Discord, but that's another story. They also seem to own Private Internet Access. If a player becomes too big, they'll change the rules of the game. Just look at the state of Interne…

I'm part of LTM and starting to build up irc.com, along with founding kiwiirc.com. I can say that London Trust Media does not impact freenode in any way - they purely fund it to keep it running so that they can focus on other areas. As for the issues with IRC - I agree. Major improvements has happened already but it has a long way to go and that's why were putting money into it to boost these efforts. We have open so…

I’d rather see irc dead than turned into something else

Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

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Post by criddell »

j45 wrote: post #27

I don't know about trascended... But it definitely has gone backwards since. But irc in its heyday had far higher quality and duration of connection than much that followed it. Maybe it was truly the first generation of the internet. I still have many of those teenage irc connections in my life years later. It's not hard to imagine IRC surviving if it had a natural path to instant messaging when Icq/aim/yahoo arrived…

I'm waiting on an NNTP revival.

Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

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Post by RpFLCL »

ve55 wrote: post #10

I'm interested to see how they manage to convince communities to use their IRC services over competitors like Discord when so many users see Discord as easy, free, trendy, etc. Of course services liks Slack, Telegram, Skype, etc, are also potential competitors in this ecosystem. >IRC Gaming (We're going to have literally hundreds of thousands in cash prizes!) I suppose literally paying users money is one way, but it…

Good point.

I'm a big fan of the federation of different IRC servers, but also like have rich media embeds and drag+drop image uploading, even if that currently means being tied into the discord servers.

Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

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Post by vole »

RpFLCL wrote: post #33
ve55 wrote: post #10

I'm interested to see how they manage to convince communities to use their IRC services over competitors like Discord when so many users see Discord as easy, free, trendy, etc. Of course services liks Slack, Telegram, Skype, etc, are also potential competitors in this ecosystem. >IRC Gaming (We're going to have literally hundreds of thousands in cash prizes!) I suppose literally paying users money is one way, but it…

Good point. I'm a big fan of the federation of different IRC servers, but also like have rich media embeds and drag+drop image uploading, even if that currently means being tied into the discord servers.

Matrix attempts to be a solution to this

Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

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Post by noeatnosleep »

beefhash wrote: post #17

As a routine user of IRC: This scares – nay, terrifies – me. London Trust Media is colossal. They seem to have control over freenode and Snoonet, two networks basically unchallenged in their niche. Snoonet hasn't been doing so well since Discord, but that's another story. They also seem to own Private Internet Access. If a player becomes too big, they'll change the rules of the game. Just look at the state of Interne…

Heyo, I'm the head of snoonet. LTM provides servers for us, with no asks or meddling.

Andrew is passionate about IRC and has been for a very long time. This is just another outflowing of his vision and gratitude, not some kind of cash grab.

Re: University: It's a 'University' ON IRC, not ABOUT IRC. There will be partnered educators and developers teaching classes about many topics, likely a good portion development focused.

Re: Ventures: This isn't ventures FOR IRC, it's an incubator. The communication, application, and interaction will be centered on IRC, but the ventures will be varied.

The team working on irc.com has extensive experience of IRC communities and networks and will be opening the door to collaborations with others within the IRC environments, whether network operators or ircd developers and seeks to work closely with the wider community on these endeavors.

I know most of the people involved personally, feel free to ask questions if you want!

Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

#36

Post by sgt »

agumonkey wrote: post #8

irc is lively enough, steady and just right. Thanks but no thanks

I'm on irc still.. but i've cut down on all the channels I used to hang around in, and now I'm basically only in #motorcycles on EFNet, where IRC is alive and well. Topics range from rebuilding carburetors to the innards of Erlang.

Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

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Post by prawnsalad »

RpFLCL wrote: post #33
ve55 wrote: post #10

I'm interested to see how they manage to convince communities to use their IRC services over competitors like Discord when so many users see Discord as easy, free, trendy, etc. Of course services liks Slack, Telegram, Skype, etc, are also potential competitors in this ecosystem. >IRC Gaming (We're going to have literally hundreds of thousands in cash prizes!) I suppose literally paying users money is one way, but it…

Good point. I'm a big fan of the federation of different IRC servers, but also like have rich media embeds and drag+drop image uploading, even if that currently means being tied into the discord servers.

(kiwiirc IRC client dev here) This type of thing is down to the clients to put into place and we actually do this now. Drag/drop files, pasting images directly into the client, 1GB files supported, right out of the box. Give it a try! https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/

I believe other clients are starting to integrate this type of thing too - it's greatly needed

Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

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Post by Twirrim »

wencha wrote: post #31
prawnsalad wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm part of LTM and starting to build up irc.com, along with founding kiwiirc.com. I can say that London Trust Media does not impact freenode in any way - they purely fund it to keep it running so that they can focus on other areas. As for the issues with IRC - I agree. Major improvements has happened already but it has a long way to go and that's why were putting money into it to boost these efforts. We have open so…

I’d rather see irc dead than turned into something else

How could any of this kill IRC? It's an open standard.

Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

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Post by cantelope »

If I may interject.. Until 4 months ago I didn't know LTMH existed, but I knew I loved Freenode, and IRC in general. Since then I've learned much about LTMH, having been hired by them as a developer and designer. They have treated me very well so far, and I believe in my core that their interests are benevolent. They believe in protecting privacy, freedom of speech, openness of software, and connecting individuals from around the globe. In my experience, LTMH has never sacrificed these principles in the pursuit of financial gain, and I believe this endeavor (the IRC.com project) will, as all their other projects do, serve the community upon which they depend.
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