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yep, exactly. if IRC was on the web, back in the day, I feel it would have been a lot like discord.
by naikrovek 4y ago
yep, exactly. if IRC was on the web, back in the day, I feel it would have been a lot like discord.
- seydor 4y agoIRC is on the web and has been for some time, but it is not like discord. There is a difference in their approach Discord tries to make chat searchable so they encourage splitting conversations to 1000 channels, and a more asynchronous way of replying. It s a searchable live news feed rathr than a chat transcript. IRC is simple live stream, if something is not noted immediately, it gets lost and you have to repeat it. It's meant to be ephemeral
- naikrovek 4y agoIRC is not a web protocol. IRC is on the Internet, but not the web. IRC frontends can be and are hosted on web pages, but that's not the same thing. Discord is hosted on port 443, uses HTTPS as a transport protocol, and is entirely a web application. anyway, I feel that discord is meant to be just as ephemeral as plain IRC is, given that nearly every IRC server I have ever used automatically logged everything that happened to a searchable web interface.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoNo Matrix users here, huh?