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It's a shame that IRC usage is dwindling especially in techie circles. However I can understand it if it doesn't work for them any more although in my opinion I
by spystath 7y ago
It's a shame that IRC usage is dwindling especially in techie circles. However I can understand it if it doesn't work for them any more although in my opinion IRC has a lot of moderation tools available. In any case, the "problem", of sorts, is not abandoning IRC but what comes next. The web is choke full of proprietary communication protocols that cannot talk to each other and you have private entities acting as gateways to online communication. Instead on relying on protocols and let clients decide how they connect to the network you have users being herded into walled "communication" gardens. This goes beyond Slack or Discord or chat-app-of-the-month. Having a flagship open-source project behind a proprietary platform for communicating with the users and developers can't help but leave a sour taste in the mouth.
Well, at least there is still Matrix to hope for.
- josteink 7y ago> This goes beyond Slack or Discord or chat-app-of-the-month. I can probably name up to 10 chat-networks and products which is existed in the 90s. None remain. IRC does though. Exactly because it wasn’t a product, but instead a protocol specification. Whatever rationale Mozilla has for this, it’s going to be proven short sighted.
- gtirloni 7y agoIt depends. If they choose something open like Matrix or XMPP, it could work well in the long-term.
- tazjin 7y agoThe blog post says "We are evaluating products, not protocols". There are no XMPP frontends that can compete with the "shininess" of the modern, proprietary systems like Slack so that's out already. As for Matrix/Riot ... maybe, but I don't think it's likely that they'll go with that.
- throwaway2048 7y agoI like how they came right out and rejected open systems out of hand, hats off mozilla.
- j--r 7y agoBut IRC isn't also shiny and they used it long time...
- Leer10 7y agoI hope they're willing to consider https://www.modular.im/ https://www.modular.im/ then, which would be based off Matrix
- microcolonel 7y agoPart of my issue with Mozilla IRC is that it is not sufficiently similar to Freenode.
- segmondy 7y agoA slack like interface can be built on top of IRC. I'm a bit amazed that no one has decided to do that.
- cagenut 7y agocheck out irccloud
- agentultra 7y agoTextual is pretty great IMO.