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30 years later and we have reinvented IRC, but worse as you can't use your own client, the protocol may not be public and it's harder to discover channels.
30 years later and we have reinvented IRC, but worse as you can't use your own client, the protocol may not be public and it's harder to discover channels.
IRC never had any channel discovery, so how does modern breed of group chats make channel discovery harder?
IRC does make a lot of things we now take for granted harder (file/image/video sharing, search, persistent history, mobile support...)
30 years later and we have reinvented IRC, but worse as you can't use your own client, the protocol may not be public and it's harder to discover channels.
At least your friends don't need a whole lot of instruction to join. Inserting pictures is pretty easy. And it's mobile.
Discord is the best thing that happened to me since IRC and I could not be happier. We exchange art, we discuss movies, we play DND together. Obviously it could not replace IRL connections, but it complements them nicely.
Discord is the lifeblood of a lot of gaming communities and a growing number of IT communities.
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At least your friends don't need a whole lot of instruction to join. Inserting pictures is pretty easy. And it's mobile.
Still with a lot of this tech, if someone sat you down for an hour and helped you, the barrier wouldn't be there.
30 years later and we have reinvented IRC, but worse as you can't use your own client, the protocol may not be public and it's harder to discover channels.
> it's harder to discover channels. IRC never had any channel discovery, so how does modern breed of group chats make channel discovery harder? IRC does make a lot of things we now take for granted harder (file/image/video sharing, search, persistent history, mobile support...)
wot? It didn't have server discovery, but once you connected to a server, you could definitely discover channels.
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Still with a lot of this tech, if someone sat you down for an hour and helped you, the barrier wouldn't be there.
Sitting down for an hour and talking about tech /is/ the barrier.
30 years later and we have reinvented IRC, but worse as you can't use your own client, the protocol may not be public and it's harder to discover channels.
At least your friends don't need a whole lot of instruction to join. Inserting pictures is pretty easy. And it's mobile.
I haven’t had a decent conversation with a stranger in years.