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Because IRC hasn't meaningfully improved in about 30 years. There have been attempts to make it friendlier with things like IRCCloud, but then the beards just
by VWWHFSfQ 5y ago
Because IRC hasn't meaningfully improved in about 30 years. There have been attempts to make it friendlier with things like IRCCloud, but then the beards just scoff at the idea of a $5/month bouncer-as-a-service and go right back to wondering why the protocol is dying.
- JadeNB 5y ago> Because IRC hasn't meaningfully improved in about 30 years. I'd way rather have something that doesn't improve for 30 years than something that actively gets worse at a rapid clip.
- bityard 5y agoCan't tell if you're being ageist on purpose but "the beards" don't _have_ to use IRCCloud and can just keep using their TUI clients and bouncer daemons if they want instead of having their UX change weekly at the whim of some resume-driven front-end team.
- bsanr2 5y agoWell, here's one issue: I can tell you what a reply and hashtag is but I'm going to fail the quiz that asks me to define a TUI client. (And don't get the Chrsmistian Fundamentalists hellbent on taking downn Tumblr et al. starter anything involving a "daemon".)
- dvtrn 5y ago.....what is this comment?
- bsanr2 5y agoMe being far too confident in Samsung's spellcheck, is what. It's too late to edit but you get the gist: nerd stuff must don user-friendly garb for to not scare the customers. UX.
- flyinglizard 5y agoThis sounds like the release candidate of GPT-3 which hasn’t made it.
- officeplant 5y agoBegone print daemon, thou shall not infect mine systems.
- Arrath 5y agoThis is a crusade I could get behind.
- Arnavion 5y agoThe point was that the stereotypical "beards" in question can continue using their TUI clients, not that someone who doesn't know what a TUI client is should be forced to use one.
- bsanr2 5y agoI think my point was that the insistence on interface purity is part of what (or emblematic of the ethos that) killed the chance of the protocol reaching mainstream adoption. But I take your point.
- smoldesu 5y agoI'd argue that Twitter hasn't been improved meaningfully in the past decade either, certainly no more than how IRCCloud has 'improved' upon IRC.
- HWR_14 5y agoWhat does IRC lack that is an improvement you missed in the last 30 years?
- blacktriangle 5y agoI think the lack of channel history is a big showstopper for many people but personally I think that's a feature. The idea that I should have to dig through slack history and its rambling conversation format to find information pertinent to my work is downright dumb.