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No mention was ever made of why anyone would want their life filled with so many damn notifications. Half of these seem more appropriate for email, and email is already set up to handle them with zero configuration (like GitHub). Twitter, who cares, that’s a time waster. Home surveillance stuff is also a waste of time. It is basically entirely ineffective, every petty criminal knows to wear a mask and clearance rates…
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Why I Live in IRC (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12267254 - Aug 2016 (83 comments)
I was an ircop on efnet for like half my childhood until they figured out I wasn't 18 and desynced my server. I just could never go back to IRC. I stopped using it probably 15 years ago or more after using it for 20ish years. Got my first job on it, learned linux and networking through it, definitely propelled my career. TOO many bots log entire channels out to public html sites. This is prevalent in everything like…
> TOO many bots log entire channels out to public html sites.
Fair enough. This would be a likely problem with any non-private chat system.
> It won't preview gifs
Why would I want my client to preload arbitrary third-party supplied fourth-party content? No thank you.
> No syncing without running an eggdrop or some tty somewhere running it 24/7
Screen and tmux have been table stakes for decades. If you can not sustain a 400h idle, you're doing it wrong.
> Everyone is just bluntly anonymous and you have no privacy outside of priv chans where you know literally everyone.
Which one do you want? Anonymity or privacy? I don't see how this is in any way different than our current-day antisocial networks.
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But this, now this is a real problem in all modern communications:
> depraved and creepy stalkery stuff that went on was insane
This has always been a problem. In the 90's, IRC was a relatively low-friction method of getting online and talk to people. At least these days the creeps have largely concentrated on their selected forums, but back in the day having just one in any ISC channel was a real menace.
Disclosure: in IRC since 1992.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Discord is just fancy IRC
Whenever someone says this I can only presume they've never used at least one of the two. Or think that IRC invented the concept of text messaging Zoom is just fancy telegraphy
I was an ircop on efnet for like half my childhood until they figured out I wasn't 18 and desynced my server. I just could never go back to IRC. I stopped using it probably 15 years ago or more after using it for 20ish years. Got my first job on it, learned linux and networking through it, definitely propelled my career. TOO many bots log entire channels out to public html sites. This is prevalent in everything like…
Am I the only one who thinks that many of the listed gripes are core features? > TOO many bots log entire channels out to public html sites. Fair enough. This would be a likely problem with any non-private chat system. > It won't preview gifs Why would I want my client to preload arbitrary third-party supplied fourth-party content? No thank you. > No syncing without running an eggdrop or some tty somewhere running it…
I would describe it as a funny picture that moves