What's everyone's favorite linux-based client nowadays? I've been out of it a long time, but recent events have got me interested in seeing what's happening at libre chat.
I use The Lounge.
Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
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#162My guess is that he really likes the name, feels it has brand recognition, and wants to pivot the domain to something else besides IRC. That might explain why he's making all of these decisions to drive people away. Once the population gets low enough, then he can just pull the plug on the servers claiming that there aren't enough people online. No one will protest, and after 6 months the social network MyFreeNodeBoo…
Reminds me of that South Park episode where Cartman buys an amusement park to play in all for himself, realizes he needs to pay staff, slowly begins to bring people into the amusement park in order to pay for upkeep, and is afterwards hailed as an economic genius as though all his actions were planned.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like in past days. If you have a working OS (ie not iOS) you can use it fine. Otherwise use Lounge or something similar.
I was using Android and the experience was not good. Disconnects every time I put my phone in my pocket.
You need to disable power savings.
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#164Re: Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
#165Freenode: Current global users 49980 Libera: Current global users 32769 Freenode's decline in users over the past month: http://www.hinner.com/ircstat/Socip_F_2.gif Comparison showing Freenode decline and Libera rise: https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php Probably won't be long before Freenode is effectively dead. Edit: Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27502059 for a projection and more stats.
That low? IRC is truly dead But then again everyone is on Discord now so no surprise
You can't even bookmark or favorite channels on discord. On discord, instead of joining channels, you join server (which aren't really servers BTW) with all their sub-channels, it is utterly impractical to use.
Re: Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
#166Freenode: Current global users 49980 Libera: Current global users 32769 Freenode's decline in users over the past month: http://www.hinner.com/ircstat/Socip_F_2.gif Comparison showing Freenode decline and Libera rise: https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php Probably won't be long before Freenode is effectively dead. Edit: Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27502059 for a projection and more stats.
I don't disagree with your point or your numbers, but the first chart can be misleading because the y axis doesn't start at 0.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
IRC is not dead but I was also surprised by those numbers. Random Discord servers for niched things have more users than those combined and the big ones have hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of users.
OTOH: IRC only counts users who are currently online. Discord counts every user who has clicked an invite link and "joined" the server, regardless of whether they are active.
You're right but it all depends on what number you choose to expose (the games I've played that show Discord member count in-game usually show online count). As an example of a niche server I just saw one that is only about trading stuff in Animal Crossing: New Horizons but it still had 100k online with 500k in total.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those downvoting, this is accurate according to his current lawsuit(s) against him. Certainly not exaggerated.
> For those downvoting, this is accurate according to his current lawsuit(s) against him While the claims in the lawsuit may eventually be proven, the fact that something has been alleged in a lawsuit is not even remotely similar to substantive evidence that it is true.
hence why I said "according to the current lawsuit(s) against him"...
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#169> this channel is in violation of Freenode policy Any word on the alleged policy violation? Or has Lee just starting nuking communities at this point?
The policy basically changes on a daily basis, depending on which action he needs to quickly justify.
Generally speaking, mentioning anything about libera.chat in the topic is counted as "spam" or "advertising" or whatever, even if you were keeping a presence on both networks, or only considering the possibility of a move.
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#170Why I don't understand is, why is nobody talking about Crystel? She sold something she didn't own betraying the trust of everyone, and yet, nobody mentions her.
She went to hols and xmas parties, she was "elected" by peers and then she picked the worst person even and SOLD HIM SOMETHING SHE DIDN'T OWN.