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In my opinion the reasons for loss of userbase & mindshare: 1 Spam and noise -> No proper authentication and moderating system for channels. It's hard to keep
by jiggunjer 8y ago
In my opinion the reasons for loss of userbase & mindshare:
1 Spam and noise -> No proper authentication and moderating system for channels. It's hard to keep bad agents out of channels.
2 Competition -> Forums had more features (including a solution for point 1, also https) and didn't require a special client. If you could easily send cat gifs in chats IRC would have been great.
- keithnz 8y agothere was comic chat :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
- traviscj 8y agoOh man, so many hours in my teens on this. It was my tumblr, I think.
- crtasm 8y agoIf your network runs services you can set your channel to require being authed with nickserv to join. Sure people can make a new account if you ban them but they can on a web forum too. Or you can set channel so only voiced nicks can speak and de-voice a nick to moderate. Or even make an access list so only specific authed nicks can join. None of this is ideal though I agree.
- WilliamEdward 8y agoWhy is the biggest loss of userbase not attributed to really bad barrier of entry and UI? As a layperson it's much easier and friendlier to join Discord/related software which has a ton more features.