It’s like ICQ
IRC was and still is just fine. Not as flashy as some of the newer stuff it had everything you could ask for in text-based chat.
Well no, it doesn’t keep a history of chats for once. You don’t have a record of conversations if your client wasn’t running at that time. There’s a few other limitations that I’m not familiar with, that prompted many people and orgs to switch to things like rocket chat or matrix
That’s why IRC bouncers exist, and then you have some IRC servers getting pissy about running one unless they like you or you’re special (staff)
Yep I run my own ‘The Lounge’ instance now instead of using xchat or mirc or something, it gives me persistance and availability on my mobile devices.
Twitch, at least did, have a IRC version of their chat. So you could stream the video with like mpv and have irssi to avoid the browser, and basically have the full experience
It’s not just text anymore.
I use TheLounge as a client. It’s web based and can show previews of images and videos. So my friends and I can upload images and videos to the server and watch them in the channel.
Convos also does this.
where are some good servers?
I’d really like to suggest servers or networks but I host my own private server with TheLounge for my friends. We ran away from Undernet around 2010 and just stayed on our own server since.
Quakenet is where I sit
where are some good servers?
20 years ago I was in college, it was earlyish days of piracy and the net admin had locked down all p2p protocols. I actually used irc bots to cruise file servers and request downloads. Not sure what protocol they were using for file transfer over mIRC but I got a lot of music that way. Netflix was also handy as a DVD burning service but that’s another topic.
Back in the day I used direct connect, we had 100mbit internet (at my university), that was extremely fast back in the day.
of course gen x is overlooked again
And we prefer it that way.
gen x fucking made it before the housing crash and pandemic, they can sit over there with the boomers
some did
most did not
Im old as hell, what tf is IRC?
I met my wife on IRC.
I also met your wife on IRC. Nice person, good choice. I’d say neither of you are the reacher in your relationship. Well done.
This sounds like a compliment, but I sincerely am not 100% sure.
Therefore, I choose to interpret as one. Thank you!
It was meant as one. :) Just trying to turn around some harass-y and insulting comments I’ve seen around and tried to make it somewhat funny.
Then I shall reiterate, thank you! I am rather fond of her.
Anyone from 28 and above will be easly called a boomer by 14 years old 😂 as a xenial here I used to feel weird maybe slightly offended…but I decided to enjoy it and keep my self entertained by dumb online fuedes and the alleged generational online wars that comes with…so yeah Long live the IRC
Anyone from 28 and above will be easly called a boomer by 14 years old
I’m sure there’s some kind of meme to describe this. Or maybe they’re all TikTok dances now, idk.
All I know is that the damned kids today need to get off my lawn.
cherish it. the internet is gonna get progressively worse.
Slack is just an IRC skin - change my mind
If you know how xerygraphy works, which is what the most popular fax machines used before laser printers, that statement is actually not far off. Heat drums were the first piece to fail in them.
I downloaded my first 3 songs from IRC with MIRC. Took all night to download but man was I happy the next morning.
IRC - I Recall Correctly. Yup. I’m sure that’s what it was. No relation to ICQ.
I remember playing Uplink some years ago and buying the in-game IRC client for fun. MOTD said the server is long dead and I wasted that run’s money.
Why did IRC even fail. It had it all.
Has it failed? Or have you failed at being loyal?
Hahaha!
Hosting a chat room meant you had to self host or trust someone else’s server.
There is no concept of groups. So you had to create several channels with some kind of naming scheme. There is no way to see them in a group. You just need to know about them as a chatter.
History is not saved by default. Most used a 3rd party server to host a history log, which is more work.
There is no audio, video, screen sharing.
You can’t reply to a chat with an emoji. You can’t edit your previous chats.
You can’t reply to a specific chat unless you get specific like copying the original chat.
Don’t get me wrong. I hated that discord owns most of the communication online.
I wish there was a simple and easy to use open source tool that did all of that in a single package.
I don’t mind self-hosting but if I have to self-host several interacting services that I need to update manually, it becomes a pain.
Dalnet fucked up
What exactly makes discord more like irc?
my guess is they mean the caliber of user / conversation, not the features of the platforms themselves
Yeah, obviously, maybe they mean its a bunch of idle users saying nothing nowadays because there’s so many “servers” now.
