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>TheLounge That's the problem. Your best recommendation is to sign up for a third party service just to use IRC. That's awful UX.
by na85 5y ago
>TheLounge
That's the problem. Your best recommendation is to sign up for a third party service just to use IRC. That's awful UX.
- doix 5y agoIRC is a protocol, not a service. The alternative discussed is slack/discord, where you sign up to use their service. You can pretend that TheLounge is IRC and then it's just the same as slack/discord from a user's perspective. I don't see why that's horrible UX. I keep an irssi session running inside a screen session on my server and SSH into it to use IRC. Since IRC is a protocol, not a service tied to a specific client, I have that option. I can't do that (easily) with slack/discord. I consider slack/discord to have shit ux because I'm forced to use their bloated clients that waste tons of screen real estate.
- genericacct 5y agoTheLounge is not a third party service, it's software you can run on your own machine. Works pretty well and the UX is slick.