Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by jlgaddis on Friday June 22, 2018 @11:37PM
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> ... it’s free.
And doesn't require 8 GB of RAM to run a client.
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by greglindahl on Saturday June 23, 2018 @01:43AM
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Ha ha that's crazy talk! Eventually they threw my IRC server off of EFNet because 8 total megabytes of ram for the server+OS was too little for the working set.
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by hueving on Friday June 22, 2018 @09:26PM
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>about the only thing it has on the competitors is that it’s free.
It's more than 'free'. It's an open standard. You can write a slack client in your favorite language and it will continue to work for years.
Slack does not compete with that.
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by paulryanrogers on Friday June 22, 2018 @09:35PM
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^"[IRC] client and it will work for years" ?
IRC has had literal decades to be improved and only now do people get serious about it after Slack and friends sucked all the oxygen out of the room.
Older isn’t necessarily better either. IRC has stagnated hard, about the only thing it has on the competitors is that it’s free.