Re:Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again
by nixpulvis on Monday May 20, 2019 @02:17PM
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Well yea, it's a sad fact that IRC requires a client side server running something like ZNC to work as needed. IRC is great in many, many ways, but this is a fundamental flaw. It's nice there are solutions, but they are technical, require hosting, and aren't perfect.
Other chat protocols fix this but lack the base, and are having trouble competing against the likes of Slack or iMessage in different use cases for example.
I'm excited to see how Purism's Librem 5 is going to play out with matrix as it's primary communications platform.
Re:Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again
by ggg2 on Monday May 20, 2019 @11:39AM
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almost every single irc server since 94 or so have some sort of logger. if not, it's an intentional design choice for that one community.
Re:Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again
by hombre_fatal on Monday May 20, 2019 @11:43AM
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You're suggesting people scour logs for missed messages as if that's seriously your pitch for "IRC has that, too."
This is exactly why people who are pro-IRC are watching the sun set on IRC and they don't have a flaming clue why beyond condescending suspicions like "it's the users who are idiots."
In IRC, anything that happens while you don't have an active session just doesn't exist.
That might work for some communities, like programming language groups where I can hop in, talk about something with whoever's online, and hop back off.
But if I'm chatting with my friends and we're trying to make plans for the weekend, everyone really needs to see that conversation regardless of whether they have the client running right this second.