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I really wish IRC was still the defecto choice for open source projects. Now days all I see is gitter/slack/discord/matrix which I find all have a significantly
by doix 4y ago
I really wish IRC was still the defecto choice for open source projects. Now days all I see is gitter/slack/discord/matrix which I find all have a significantly worse experience than IRC.
- warrenm 4y agoIf IRC was stateful (ie, it would "remember"/deliver offline messages when I sign-on again (at least buffer them for some configurable period)), I'd be onboard with using it for almost everything But it's not That's what made Slack so appealing early on - IRC-like communication with history
- oddly 4y agoMaybe you know already, but you can use an IRC relay to act as pseudo client, connect to that and then read back on messages. You’ll have to find a place to host it though. For example, “The Lounge”. Edit: typo
- warrenm 4y agoYeah, you can ... but that's a bolt-on/additional service that, quite frankly, IRC ought to Just Do™ at this point It's 2022, not 1988 :)
- Gud 4y agoI just keep my irssi running on a Vultr VM.
- warrenm 4y agoI used to do that Too much hassle, imo