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tl; dr it was a standard and so could not improve fast enough with the improvements being discovered around distributed systems and mobile needs. I get the auth
by djhaskin987 7y ago
tl; dr it was a standard and so could not improve fast enough with the improvements being discovered around distributed systems and mobile needs. I get the author's point, and we're seeing a lot of standards being outstripped by entrepreneurs these days, but I hope things slow down and standards become useful again. They are really important to maintain the open source world.
- enriquto 7y agoWhy are you talking in the past tense? IRC is alive and well and many people use it every day. In what absurd sense this means "failure"?
- user_50123890 7y agoProbably in that while internet usage exploded by 100000x, yet IRC is less popular than ever with barely any new users.
- michaelmrose 7y agoIf you go to a nice restaurant that makes more than enough money to support itself and you enjoy the service and the food and then someone builds 100 McDonald's all over the state this doesn't instantly transform the restaurant into a failure.
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- johnisgood 7y agoIf there are no new users due to people not being able to figure out how to use it, I am OK with that. I pretty much figured out how to use IRC (started with mIRC) at age 10 or so. I am not sure it has to do with lack of awareness either, many widespread projects have their own channel on Freenode which they put on their website. Why do you think it barely has any new users, and how do we measure it?
- dehrmann 7y agoI use it 10x less than I did 10 years ago. I've mostly replaced it with forums and Stackoverflow.