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>Just search for #gameofthrones and enter the chat to talk with others. I invoke Poe's law: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2811#section-2.1 https://tools.ietf

>Just search for #gameofthrones and enter the chat to talk with others. I invoke Poe's law: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2811#section-2.1 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2811#section-2.1 "Channels names are strings (beginning with a '&', '#', '+' or '!' character) of length up to fifty (50) characters. Channel names are case insensitive." Traditionally, people use channel names like #foobar. (if you wanna know what the other prefixes are for: & = local to server + = no ops, no modes ! = "safe channels", a rather esoteric concept related to protecting against special forms of netsplit abuse. Barely anyone uses these or knows that this feature even exists. I hope they don't throw it out with IRCv3, and instead just make it less... idiosyncratic.

kalado 7y ago
I honestly don't know what you are trying to say? I didn't mean using IRC (although you might of course).
- lazyjones 7y ago
  He's trying to say that your "groundbreaking" hashtag idea is so similar to IRC that some people will be thinking you're being ironic.
  - kalado 7y ago
    That makes sense I guess. IRC channels are spread over thousands of servers though and not really discoverable or, in general, mainstream user friendly And obviously it doesn't have to be a # character.
    - parliament32 7y ago
      Thousands of servers that are federated together into a few networks. I shouldn't have to explain the benefits of a federated chat service vs a corporate monolith like you're describing. Is "/list" and sorting by members or searching for keywords really not discoverable? All that aside, parent is right, you're basically re-inventing IRC. A more user-friendly client may be a good idea, but it's something that's really hard to make money on, so it's unlikely anyone would bother working on it.
      - kalado 7y ago
        It's discoverable by me and you, not by the average joe. When I was in school I created an IRC channel for us, I had to make a youtube video explaining how to install a client, connect to the server, reserve a username. I still got questions how to connect. Anyway, as someone else let me now, kik intruduced exactly this feature with the exact same limit on users in one chat already.

kalado 7y ago

I honestly don't know what you are trying to say? I didn't mean using IRC (although you might of course).

lazyjones 7y ago
He's trying to say that your "groundbreaking" hashtag idea is so similar to IRC that some people will be thinking you're being ironic.
- kalado 7y ago
  That makes sense I guess. IRC channels are spread over thousands of servers though and not really discoverable or, in general, mainstream user friendly And obviously it doesn't have to be a # character.
  - parliament32 7y ago
    Thousands of servers that are federated together into a few networks. I shouldn't have to explain the benefits of a federated chat service vs a corporate monolith like you're describing. Is "/list" and sorting by members or searching for keywords really not discoverable? All that aside, parent is right, you're basically re-inventing IRC. A more user-friendly client may be a good idea, but it's something that's really hard to make money on, so it's unlikely anyone would bother working on it.
    - kalado 7y ago
      It's discoverable by me and you, not by the average joe. When I was in school I created an IRC channel for us, I had to make a youtube video explaining how to install a client, connect to the server, reserve a username. I still got questions how to connect. Anyway, as someone else let me now, kik intruduced exactly this feature with the exact same limit on users in one chat already.