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No persistent presence, no true source-of-truth logging, bad authentiation - I mean, there's really nothing good about IRC unless you have a fetish for late '90s tech.
Late 90’s? More like late 80’s. I think my first IRC session was in 1991.
Second that there is a perception of plain text as an antiquated medium of communication (and yet we persistently reinvent markdown as a way of simplifying rich text).
Third and most importantly, the issue is not that IRC is old or is missing features, it is that IRC encodes a specific model for running a communication network (hubs, leafs, operators, etc). When we try and replace IRC with a system like Matrix we are giving up the old model of "owned" nodes and the decentralised nature of it to instead bow to a centralised model where certain people wield absolute power. Is this really the right way? what if I want to write a bot to perform some unusual administrative function? do I have keep updating it every time the API changes? that's why IRC is good, I don't need to do that.
I have full faith that, if I had left a computer running, in the corner of my home, with an IRC client open, it would have been able to maintain a connection to Freenode (not continuously, but just work) for fifteen or more years. Personally I don't think IRC will ever be replaced. Well, it will, but it'll happen when my generation dies and gets fully replaced with the New Shiny. I _hope_ that some sort of real, prop…
Why move away from IRC at all? If it ain't broken why "fix" it.
Really excited to see Discord rejected. Watching Discord take over open source and free culture communities has been disheartening to say the least.
Really excited to see Discord rejected. Watching Discord take over open source and free culture communities has been disheartening to say the least.
I've never heard of this but I'm not particularly in the field... Can you expand?
Why move away from IRC at all? If it ain't broken why "fix" it.