As someone who still uses IRC daily please understand that telling people IRC is a replacement for Discord is utter nonsense
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As someone who still uses IRC daily please understand that telling people IRC is a replacement for Discord is utter nonsense
IRC does not
- let you post images or other files (DCC send doesn't count even if you somehow get it to work)
- show link previews
- do voice chat
- do screen sharing
- have offline messaging capabilityPlease stop saying IRC is an alternative to Discord. It's not. Or at best it's a very shitty alternative
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As someone who still uses IRC daily please understand that telling people IRC is a replacement for Discord is utter nonsense
IRC does not
- let you post images or other files (DCC send doesn't count even if you somehow get it to work)
- show link previews
- do voice chat
- do screen sharing
- have offline messaging capabilityPlease stop saying IRC is an alternative to Discord. It's not. Or at best it's a very shitty alternative
@eniko it's kindof insane what a big difference link preview and in-line images do. I mostly use fedi through irssi, and opening the mastodon interface is a whole different world with content that feels unfamiliar
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As someone who still uses IRC daily please understand that telling people IRC is a replacement for Discord is utter nonsense
IRC does not
- let you post images or other files (DCC send doesn't count even if you somehow get it to work)
- show link previews
- do voice chat
- do screen sharing
- have offline messaging capabilityPlease stop saying IRC is an alternative to Discord. It's not. Or at best it's a very shitty alternative
@eniko I’ve yet to see a screenshot of an IRC client that wasn’t using a monospace font, and I think that speaks for itself
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As someone who still uses IRC daily please understand that telling people IRC is a replacement for Discord is utter nonsense
IRC does not
- let you post images or other files (DCC send doesn't count even if you somehow get it to work)
- show link previews
- do voice chat
- do screen sharing
- have offline messaging capabilityPlease stop saying IRC is an alternative to Discord. It's not. Or at best it's a very shitty alternative
@eniko IRC v3 is. Current IRC? Nah.
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As someone who still uses IRC daily please understand that telling people IRC is a replacement for Discord is utter nonsense
IRC does not
- let you post images or other files (DCC send doesn't count even if you somehow get it to work)
- show link previews
- do voice chat
- do screen sharing
- have offline messaging capabilityPlease stop saying IRC is an alternative to Discord. It's not. Or at best it's a very shitty alternative
@eniko I did get a few one piece movie through DCC :3
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As someone who still uses IRC daily please understand that telling people IRC is a replacement for Discord is utter nonsense
IRC does not
- let you post images or other files (DCC send doesn't count even if you somehow get it to work)
- show link previews
- do voice chat
- do screen sharing
- have offline messaging capabilityPlease stop saying IRC is an alternative to Discord. It's not. Or at best it's a very shitty alternative
@eniko Lot of people who are very obviously animated by “everything should be like it was when I was a teenager and things were perfect”
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@eniko Lot of people who are very obviously animated by “everything should be like it was when I was a teenager and things were perfect”
@j0ebaldw1n not sure how anyone can think IRC was ever perfect, and I say this as someone who used it as a teen!
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@j0ebaldw1n not sure how anyone can think IRC was ever perfect, and I say this as someone who used it as a teen!
@eniko Nostalgia goggles basically, it’s just “back in my day music was good unlike this modern crap” but for people who use Linux
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As someone who still uses IRC daily please understand that telling people IRC is a replacement for Discord is utter nonsense
IRC does not
- let you post images or other files (DCC send doesn't count even if you somehow get it to work)
- show link previews
- do voice chat
- do screen sharing
- have offline messaging capabilityPlease stop saying IRC is an alternative to Discord. It's not. Or at best it's a very shitty alternative
@eniko Yeah, the "Just use IRC" hype is what I associate with "tell me you're an Internet boomer without telling me".
As in, they've missed approximately 2 decades, if not more, of development.
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As someone who still uses IRC daily please understand that telling people IRC is a replacement for Discord is utter nonsense
IRC does not
- let you post images or other files (DCC send doesn't count even if you somehow get it to work)
- show link previews
- do voice chat
- do screen sharing
- have offline messaging capabilityPlease stop saying IRC is an alternative to Discord. It's not. Or at best it's a very shitty alternative
@eniko irc is *terrible*
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