Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by kuschku on Friday June 07, 2019 @02:20AM (#20122099)

How do you expect to be able to set up a server with a click of a button, without paying for it, without hosting it yourself, to work without SaaS? What you want is a predatorily priced VC funded SaaS that only offers this cheap service to get you into their ecosystem. It's not possible to do this in a self-sustaining way.

Ofc you can use IRCCloud Teams, create servers with one click, but also pay for that.

And what other modern features ate you looking for? This is IRC today: https://quasseldroid.info/assets/images/phone.png and emoji reactions, typing notifiers as well as threads are already supported in some clients and being standardized.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by afarrell on Monday June 10, 2019 @07:59AM (#20145858)

I can’t quite tell from that screenshot: is there an IRC client that supports newlines and where you have some indication of whether the other clients support newlines?

The inability to structure text visually is my biggest reason for avoiding IRC.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by kuschku on Monday June 10, 2019 @08:26AM (#20146056)

Many newer clients group messages that follow right after another as if they were one message with line breaks, this is one of them :)

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