Isn't london trust media the owner of freenode and privateinternetaccess?
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
#172This is a bit off topic, and I love IRC, but I'd love a modern IRC client. Features I'd like: - Inline images and media - html preview - people list, friends, but also an automatic highlight system, when I chat with someone I don't know for some time, I'd like to have that person on some list. - Conversation history (a way to jump to my conversations within the channel history). - More advanced profiles (image, bio..…
(kiwiirc.com dev here) You might want to take a look at irccloud.com and kiwiirc.com/nextclient
These 2 clients cover most of your use case while others such as end to end encryption are currently being developed. Hopefully with with irc.com support multiple IRC clients can be reaching all of these features and in a standard open way.
Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should try irccloud. Or one of the many clients that do this.
Now teach the other hundreds of thousands of ex-IRC users how to set up their own bouncer servers and get them to actually stick with it for any amount of time.
Why would they need to? IRCCloud does that for them (the joys of SaaS).
Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
#174Long live IRC There will always be new platforms like slack, discord, gitter, and whatever. IRC was and still is great. IRC is simple, its text, its stable. Its simple to program on and a lot can be done above it. IRC is open. The basis of old internet protocols are simple, open and powerful Email, IRC, HTML, FTP And as the article points out, irc has no face. IRC was a time people had to ask for a picture. Different…
I used command line IRC clients in the 1990s. I wrote IRC clients in the 1990s. I'm not interested in going back to IRC, an "open" 7-bit effectively-centralized protocol with line-length limits and lowest-common-denominator clients that can't even show an image.
I don't use Mutt to get access to my email, anymore, either.
I guess that makes me "average".
IRC, FTP, and, yes, SMTP are all bad protocols from the 1980s era of protocol design. All are on their way out, some more gradually than others. Good riddance. How sad it would be if the Internet of 2020 looked the same as it did in 1995.
Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
#175Long live IRC There will always be new platforms like slack, discord, gitter, and whatever. IRC was and still is great. IRC is simple, its text, its stable. Its simple to program on and a lot can be done above it. IRC is open. The basis of old internet protocols are simple, open and powerful Email, IRC, HTML, FTP And as the article points out, irc has no face. IRC was a time people had to ask for a picture. Different…
> Long live IRC
> There will always be new platforms like slack, discord, gitter, and whatever. IRC was and still is great.
Here is XKCD[0] for this ;-)
Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
#176I don't expect anything good to come out of this for the current IRC users. Hopefully they aren't going to play the embrace-extend-extinguish game in the long run to steal the name for their own proprietary protocol.
Remove “proprietary” and that’s what IRCv3 did.
It's like the devs of Clang and GCC suddenly joined to define what "C20" means but bypassing ANSI and ISO processes.
Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now teach the other hundreds of thousands of ex-IRC users how to set up their own bouncer servers and get them to actually stick with it for any amount of time.
Why would they need to? IRCCloud does that for them (the joys of SaaS).
Why would a community group pay $5/mo/person to use private servers when they could use Discord for free?
Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
#178Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
#179Fediverse has a better shot than this.
Re: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
#180As 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…
> server-side storage of history
You can do that with a bouncer. Slack and Discord are essentially a chat server with an integrated bouncer.
> mobile-friendly data usage
How is IRC not mobile-friendly? It only transports the raw text, not even "X is writing a message" notifications.
> first class support for emoji
Most clients support UTF-8, isn't it only a matter of fonts?