Re:Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack
by dijit on Thursday July 27, 2017 @06:16PM
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I love IRC, I even run my own IRC network, but IRC in 2017 is indeed woefully dated.
To my mind we need something which is a little bit more mobile friendly- with support for replaying history etc;
IRC "could do this" with bouncers and such, in fact I do this myself, but it's not very clean- and if you see it from a protocol perspective it's all hacks on hacks.
A clean "IRC for 2017" style protocol would probably wind up looking a lot like matrix, so I'd rather we rally behind that.
To my mind we need something which is a little bit more mobile friendly- with support for replaying history etc;
IRC "could do this" with bouncers and such, in fact I do this myself, but it's not very clean- and if you see it from a protocol perspective it's all hacks on hacks.
A clean "IRC for 2017" style protocol would probably wind up looking a lot like matrix, so I'd rather we rally behind that.