Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor

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Post by nature » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 10:34 PM UTC

Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor
exple.tive.org

Re: Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor

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Post by client4 » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 11:41 PM UTC

Keybase Chat would make a solid choice as well. *I work for Keybase, but chose to work here because I love the mission / product.

Re: Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor

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Post by bhhaskin » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 11:50 PM UTC

Why move away from IRC at all? If it ain't broken why "fix" it.

Re: Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor

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Post by regnerba » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 11:54 PM UTC

Excited to see what the results of their Matrix PoC. I have been a big fan of Matrix for a while.

Re: Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor

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Post by regnerba » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 11:58 PM UTC

bhhaskin wrote: post #3

Why move away from IRC at all? If it ain't broken why "fix" it.

For a lot of people IRC is "broken" when compared to modern alternatives.

I personally really dislike using IRC. I am in several IRC channels because some open source projects I use and upstream code to are on IRC. I dislike it very much.

Re: Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor

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Post by corndoge » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 11:58 PM UTC

client4 wrote: post #2

Keybase Chat would make a solid choice as well. *I work for Keybase, but chose to work here because I love the mission / product.

Keybase chat doesn't have a server client available. It is nothing like IRC.

Re: Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor

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Post by Chlorus » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 11:59 PM UTC

bhhaskin wrote: post #3

Why move away from IRC at all? If it ain't broken why "fix" it.

Because it's very not not broken, and here's the reasons why: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/04/26/synchronous-text/

Re: Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor

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Post by bityard » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 12:16 AM UTC

regnerba wrote: post #5

bhhaskin wrote: post #3

Why move away from IRC at all? If it ain't broken why "fix" it.

For a lot of people IRC is "broken" when compared to modern alternatives. I personally really dislike using IRC. I am in several IRC channels because some open source projects I use and upstream code to are on IRC. I dislike it very much.

Why?

Re: Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor

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Post by TylerE » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 12:34 AM UTC

bityard wrote: post #8

regnerba wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a lot of people IRC is "broken" when compared to modern alternatives. I personally really dislike using IRC. I am in several IRC channels because some open source projects I use and upstream code to are on IRC. I dislike it very much.

Why?

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.

Re: Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor

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Post by Dowwie » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 12:38 AM UTC

Write the server you wish you had, in Rust. Everyone will help. It will be great. Open source all the way.