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I still don't know what's wrong with IRC.
by qorrect 6y ago
I still don't know what's wrong with IRC.
- based2 6y agohttps://security.stackexchange.com/questions/113532/how-is-irc-so-secure-untraceable-that-hackers-and-pirates-use-it-to-communicate https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/113532/how-is-i...
- anthk 6y agoMeh. IRC now can use TLS/SSL (Freenode), among SASL. On X11 vulns, I use a tty, so I don't care, and even on X, xterm has a secure mode.
- hu3 6y agoDifferent goals. IRC needs a central server. This is peer-to-peer.
- fulafel 6y agoIRC servers are peer to peer, so it's a kind of archipelago architecture. But they trust each other so it has to be coordinated and built on trusted relationships.
- greatgirl 6y agoNot user friendly. Not everyone is an internet nerd like us.
- tsujp 6y agoThat's tentative I feel. Anyone can go to https://webchat.freenode.net/ https://webchat.freenode.net/ and join a channel someone posted the name of, "join ##channel_name_here on Freenode". Registering with the nickserv and what not? For some I'd agree but it's not entirely obscure.
- rcxdude 6y agoMultimedia, end-to-end encryption, offline chat history, and having all those features actually available and usable by the average user (just having a persistent identity is something IRC makes trickier than it needs to). You may decide those are misfeatures, but most people don't.
- oftheoaks 6y agoUs cabal devs really like irc. Cabal was inspired in part by it. You might enjoy this explanatory zine: https://substack.net/zine/cabal.html https://substack.net/zine/cabal.html
- WClayFerguson 6y agoDoes IRC have "conversation threads?" To me a conversation thread necessarily entails a hierarchical chain of posts and the replies to those posts as "child nodes". All conversations are inherently "tree structures" if done right, imo.
- agentdrtran 6y agosome people want more than plain text