There’s better protocols like PSYC, XMPP also supports chat. Never took off, though, because IRC is fine as a protocol: It doesn’t do much, Latin-1/UTF-8 hybrid is nuts, but it works well enough for what people want from it: A water cooler. Go visit libera.chat, it’s exactly what it is. What we got instead is discord, proving that people don’t care about tech but fancy marketing and, allow me to be an old man shouting at internet clouds for a second, zoomers still know it from minecraft. Also presumably you aren’t “professional” if you don’t require an email address, the young’uns learned that from popups on blogspam sites.

IRC has no built-in support for

And? It’s a chat room, not a forum and emojis are a scourge upon the internet. And you’re certainly more likely to get an answer than on stackoverflow…

And pineapple news’ UI is from another era. It’s like looking at papyrus when you have Gutenberg’s print.

It’s BeOS’ default tk, the point is the UX not lack of subpixel font rendering. Windows looked like this back in the days. And no I don’t use it any more, haven’t visited usenet in almost 20 years.

There never has been a better newsreader than pineapple news. That program alone was reason enough to boot up BeOS, fite me irl.

IRC? Graphical, in particular, hexchat. Also switch the font to proportional you’re not editing text.

Heck even Google couldn’t do it, they used Apple’s WebKit. And even Apple couldn’t do it, they used KDE’s KHTML. Speaking of KHTML: Konqueror is still around, though they’ve already decided to get rid of KHTML completely and move to one of the forks, development pretty much stalled since 2016.

That’s total browser market. On Desktop it’s 7.61%, in Germany 17.93%, making it second place (though Edge isn’t far behind). Europe is 10.56%, North America pretty much average, Asia and South America are dragging it down.

It truly is troubling that they don’t have independent funding. I, for one would pay $10/y for this service. Maybe I could donate?

Firefox is Mozilla’s cash cow, it’s how they’re earning funds for their charitable work. And google btw isn’t the only one paying them, which search engine is the default depends on where you are.