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I remember back in the old days when bots were enabled by open protocols …
by zeveb 11y ago
I remember back in the old days when bots were enabled by open protocols …
- mmastrac 11y agoWe've had IRC and eggdrop (among many other bots) for decades but we've dropped the ball - it's just never been a priority to build nice interfaces on top of these things. Heck, when I was working with a distributed startup we were using Skype group chat which was actually surprisingly good. Almost Slack good at times. The Skype API was powerful enough to build a bot, but clunky and nowhere as good as the APIs available today. I wrote eggdrop code decades ago and it was fragile and picky.
- na85 11y agoWelcome to Walled Garden As A Service, the game where the rules are made up and openness doesn't matter! That's right, open architectures are like corporate tax laws!