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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by kibwen on Friday April 26, 2019 @11:49PM (#19763657)
You could levy this complaint if they actually end up picking Slack (or something similarly proprietary like Discord), but that seems quite premature. I'll miss moznet as much as anyone, but there's no denying that IRC has been left in the dust this past decade or more.
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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by progval on Saturday April 27, 2019 @03:57AM (#19764423)
Rust is moving to Discord https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/04/26/Mozilla-IRC-Sunset-and...
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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by floatingatoll on Saturday April 27, 2019 @09:33AM (#19765400)
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19761836
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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by ori_b on Saturday April 27, 2019 @12:09AM (#19763729)
It seems that by left in the dust, you mean "remained lightweight and simple". The popular alternatives so far don't seem to have any clients I find pleasant to use, and are rather strongly discouraging anyone from writing third party clients.
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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by Certhas on Saturday April 27, 2019 @03:08AM (#19764268)
No, by left in the dust they mean plummeting usage numbers.

It seems your priorities are not well aligned with those of the majority of users...

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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by LamaOfRuin on Saturday April 27, 2019 @11:02AM (#19765857)
You could say that about everything Mozilla has done in the last 10 years. They continue on because it's as much about changing people's priorities as enabling them.

If they then choose out of pragmatism to behave in ways contrary to their stated principles, people will justifiably call them out for hypocrisy.

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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by nwmcsween on Saturday April 27, 2019 @04:51AM (#19764591)
If the majority of users cannot figure out how to type /nickserv register do you really want to talk to them? Consider it a filter
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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by Multicomp on Saturday April 27, 2019 @07:11AM (#19764943)
This elitism is a big part of why younger users* such as myself have never gotten much use/utility from IRC and hence exacerbates its growing irrelevance compared to alternative tools.

*Think XMPP GTalk etc. which were IMO superior in many ways to Slack or MS Teams

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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by nwmcsween on Saturday April 27, 2019 @12:08PM (#19766194)
I'm not trying to be elitist, but if someone won't put a little effort into joining a conversation how will they ask questions or report issues?
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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by larkeith on Saturday April 27, 2019 @01:09AM (#19763907)
I've not used it myself, but have you looked into Matrix?
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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by ori_b on Saturday April 27, 2019 @11:52AM (#19766106)
Yes
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