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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by VWWHFSfQ on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:39PM (#28291258)
Because IRC hasn't meaningfully improved in about 30 years. There have been attempts to make it friendlier with things like IRCCloud, but then the beards just scoff at the idea of a $5/month bouncer-as-a-service and go right back to wondering why the protocol is dying.
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by bityard on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:00PM (#28291644)
Can't tell if you're being ageist on purpose but "the beards" don't _have_ to use IRCCloud and can just keep using their TUI clients and bouncer daemons if they want instead of having their UX change weekly at the whim of some resume-driven front-end team.
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by bsanr2 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:14PM (#28291900)
Well, here's one issue: I can tell you what a reply and hashtag is but I'm going to fail the quiz that asks me to define a TUI client. (And don't get the Chrsmistian Fundamentalists hellbent on taking downn Tumblr et al. starter anything involving a "daemon".)
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by Arnavion on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:02PM (#28293347)
The point was that the stereotypical "beards" in question can continue using their TUI clients, not that someone who doesn't know what a TUI client is should be forced to use one.
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by bsanr2 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:00AM (#28301805)
I think my point was that the insistence on interface purity is part of what (or emblematic of the ethos that) killed the chance of the protocol reaching mainstream adoption. But I take your point.
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by officeplant on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:15PM (#28292787)
Begone print daemon, thou shall not infect mine systems.
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by Arrath on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:30PM (#28292952)
This is a crusade I could get behind.
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by dvtrn on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:56PM (#28292573)
.....what is this comment?
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by bsanr2 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @09:56AM (#28301726)
Me being far too confident in Samsung's spellcheck, is what. It's too late to edit but you get the gist: nerd stuff must don user-friendly garb for to not scare the customers. UX.
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by flyinglizard on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:12PM (#28292753)
This sounds like the release candidate of GPT-3 which hasn’t made it.
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by JadeNB on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:53PM (#28291515)
> Because IRC hasn't meaningfully improved in about 30 years.

I'd way rather have something that doesn't improve for 30 years than something that actively gets worse at a rapid clip.

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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by smoldesu on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:07PM (#28291777)
I'd argue that Twitter hasn't been improved meaningfully in the past decade either, certainly no more than how IRCCloud has 'improved' upon IRC.
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by HWR_14 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:47PM (#28292443)
What does IRC lack that is an improvement you missed in the last 30 years?
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets by blacktriangle on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:03PM (#28292661)
I think the lack of channel history is a big showstopper for many people but personally I think that's a feature. The idea that I should have to dig through slack history and its rambling conversation format to find information pertinent to my work is downright dumb.
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