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Well they never were for a seamless purpose. We would mesh Ventrilo and IRC into a real awesome tool but I think we were the intended audience. There weren't mi
by baldfat 6y ago
Well they never were for a seamless purpose. We would mesh Ventrilo and IRC into a real awesome tool but I think we were the intended audience. There weren't millions of us there were tens of thousands of us.
It wasn't till there was millions of users that Discord started targeting them. First there was Curse that got bought out by Twitch and then Discord jumped in.
I still am the cranky guy who thinks IRC is the best communication tool out there and get mad looking at my Slacker screen.
- VectorLock 6y agoI used IRC regularly for ~20 years and still don't miss it compared to Slack. I miss the people and the tone of the conversations and some of the aesthetic of clients like BitchX but as a technology, I don't really care.
- rhodozelia 6y agoWow!! I haven’t thought of BitchX in about 15 years. I wonder if my eggdrops are still up?
- Firehawke 6y agoBasically this. IRCv3 never really took off and it's not really feature-comparable to the modern chat clients. I still connect to IRC for one project I'm on, but I think IRC will likely be just the last few holdouts from here on out as it's way too late to pull people back in.