Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again

Re:Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again by philwelch on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:33AM (#19958453)

> IRC never had any channel discovery

wot? It didn't have server discovery, but once you connected to a server, you could definitely discover channels.

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Re:Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again by Crinus on Monday May 20, 2019 @05:22AM (#19958667)

I remember back in the days of IRC being megapopular, a lot of servers would kick me out because they had too many channels and listing them triggered flood protection :-P

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Re:Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again by dmitriid on Monday May 20, 2019 @05:22AM (#19958665)

How different is it from modern chats? The original claim was that "it's harder to discover channels."

Same thing: find a server, connect to it. Boom, you have access to all channels (unless they are private).

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Re:Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again by ubercow13 on Monday May 20, 2019 @07:39AM (#19959373)

The article is about WhatsApp, iMessage, Facebook Messenger, etc. group chats. What you said is inapplicable to all of those.

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Re:Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again by dmitriid on Monday May 20, 2019 @07:48AM (#19959440)

1. Those have all started as individual one-on-one chats. So, their roots show

2. There are many more “group chats” for the midern era. Ignoring them isn’t wise.

3. Even among those listed you have channel discovery, for example, in Facebook Messenger.

And no, a discussion on modern chats does not end with “IRC was better end of story”. It wasn’t.

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