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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by freeflight on Saturday June 23, 2018 @04:55AM (#17380273)
> Additionally not being able to share images as a feature? I guess everyone will do the three step upload to imgur first.

Maybe I'm missing the point here: But IRC does have a file transfer feature, so what would stop people from sharing images just the same way like plenty of "content" has been shared over IRC?

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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by leeeeech on Saturday June 23, 2018 @08:02AM (#17380870)
Have you ever tried it? 90% of the time I tried it didn't work, in mirc or irssi.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by rasengan on Saturday June 23, 2018 @09:26AM (#17381161)
dcc sends and xdcc bots were pretty influential in the early internet. It definitely works.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by u801e on Saturday June 23, 2018 @01:45PM (#17382369)
It does require that one open a port in their firewall for it to actually work. xdcc bots usually would indicate which port one needed to open.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by coatmatter on Saturday June 23, 2018 @03:42PM (#17383027)
Having open ports directly to the internet (by default) with dial up modems (before routers and NAT) used to be such a common practice. Things have changed, haven't they?
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by freeflight on Saturday June 23, 2018 @09:15PM (#17384421)
That's a pretty good point I totally forgot about. Tho couldn't that problem "simply" be solved by updating the protocol to account for these changes?
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by freeflight on Saturday June 23, 2018 @09:17PM (#17384428)
IRC used to be a pretty popular distribution channel for Warez, tho it's been like 20 years ago I used it for anything like that.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by koffiezet on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @09:08AM (#17407816)
dcc and xdcc can only be used to send an image to a single client, so sending an image to a channel is a no-go.
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