Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO

Re:Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO – sources by thaumasiotes on Thursday September 02, 2021 @05:19PM (#28397491)

> And speaking of IRC, even some games like the original Quake used IRC for in game chat right? And Twitch the video streaming platform used to have its chat built on IRC but I don’t know if it still is. Either way, it’s evident that it is more suitable for real time conversation.

Sure, IRC is all delivery and no permanence. But Discord is the opposite of that; it's all permanent forum posts.

"More suitable" is a weird thing to say. They refer to different things. IRC is a transport protocol. Discord is a website. The logical comparison would be between IRC and HTTP.

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Re:Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO – sources by codetrotter on Thursday September 02, 2021 @06:47PM (#28398327)

> "More suitable" is a weird thing to say. They refer to different things. IRC is a transport protocol. Discord is a website.

Sorry if that part was unclear but I was saying that Discord and IRC are more suitable to real time communication than Reddit is.

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Re:Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO – sources by thaumasiotes on Thursday September 02, 2021 @08:03PM (#28398925)

That's weirder. IRC is still a transport protocol. Discord and Reddit are both websites.

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Re:Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO – sources by codetrotter on Friday September 03, 2021 @06:57AM (#28402592)

I think you are not getting what I mean still..

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