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IRC is not limited to plain text. Discord, Slack, and IRC all handle media the same way. Someone sends an URL and the client decides to how to handle displayi
by Washuu 8y ago
IRC is not limited to plain text. Discord, Slack, and IRC all handle media the same way. Someone sends an URL and the client decides to how to handle displaying it. Textual shows me images and videos all the time from URLs sent.
- civilian 8y agoI guess then technically IRC servers need a way to have images uploaded and re-serve them. When I share an image on slack I'm usually just uploading it directly to slack, rather than using imgur or another uploader.
- jandrese 8y agoI thought they stored the graphics on the server with Discord. I know there is that out-of-band file protocol that some IRC clients support, but it was always a terrible hack that hated firewalls.
- jjeaff 8y agoThat's not how I use the feature at all. The vast majority of images and files I send are created locally. I can then upload or paste then into the chat client, they get stored on the server and shown to the other users. With IRC, I would need to use a separate service like imgur to first upload the images. And or a file hosting service like Dropbox for the files.
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoA robust IRC client could include integrated image hosting. Or ask you to plug in your Dropbox account, and then upload there automatically when you drag and drop a file or image.
- StreamBright 8y agoHave you seen irccloud?