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If they implemented one of the first two front-ends I linked, you would know what the message was and would not have to ask your friends to repeat The only peo
by LinuxBender 8y ago
If they implemented one of the first two front-ends I linked, you would know what the message was and would not have to ask your friends to repeat The only people that opt-in are the IRC server infrastructure engineers. End users just connect to the web front end. The first two links turn your IRC servers into a Slack clone, except with more or less features. This is certainly non-trivial to set up and maintain and end users would not implement this. They are just consumers of it.
- hombre_fatal 8y agoNow I don't understand. I'm clearly talking about other people (everyone else but you), not the nerd running irssi on a VPS nor thelounge. In other words, IRC isn't worse than Slack/Discord in this regard because you have to opt-in to these things. It's worse because everyone else has to, and they clearly don't. For example, that I pay $50 to irccloud but nobody else does still makes IRC a poor experience for me because IRC is about communicating with other people, not masturbating over my irssi config.
- LinuxBender 8y agoI am not talking about putting TheLounge or Convos on a VPS node. I am talking about IRC administrators putting that, or a fork of that in front of their IRC infrastructure, so that you and your friends will have chat history / session persistence. The reference to VPS nodes was specifically for the case of WeeChat or Epic in a tmux or screen session as yet another alternate option. That is in no way related to TheLounge or Convos.
- crooked-v 8y ago> I am talking about IRC administrators putting that, or a fork of that in front of their IRC infrastructure ...at which point you're just reinventing Slack, except you're depending on random volunteers to pay for and manage the infrastructure of it.
- LinuxBender 8y agoCorrect.