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Features desired by modern users have a minimum complexity to them. It's just unavoidable. Classic IRC has many drawbacks and missing features: - messages sent
by selfhoster11 5y ago
Features desired by modern users have a minimum complexity to them. It's just unavoidable. Classic IRC has many drawbacks and missing features:
- messages sent to you while logged out are lost
- no support for videos, images and GIFs
- (usually) not great support for emoji
- no support for file attachments
- no useful mobile clients unless with support from the server
Yes, those can be considered frivolous features, but they are used by people to express themselves (which is, in essence, what a chat protocol is used for), they are expected because IRC's competition has them, and some of them are an objective usability improvement that I'm not willing to go back on.
- MaxLeiter 5y agofwiw, these are all addressed by IRCCloud or The Lounge (and some others to varying degrees)
- u801e 5y agoA lot of these features are normally handled by other services. So for videos, images, and gifs, these can be represented by a URL that's pasted in the channel that you can view with a web browser. The advantage of doing it this way actually makes it easier to scroll back in the chat history when you're searching for something that was posted.