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IRCs other biggest weakness is that to host images is a PITA. As is sending files. DCC works, if/when it wants.
by doublerabbit 3y ago
IRCs other biggest weakness is that to host images is a PITA. As is sending files.
DCC works, if/when it wants.
- superkuh 3y agoHosting images is a great way to waste a lot of money and have to hire a squad of lawyers. There's a reason free image hosts have well known short lifecycles. The strength of IRC is that it is mostly stateless. Just lists of IPs subscribed to sockets.
- doublerabbit 3y agoAs beautiful as it is. You don't need to host anything. Image capabilities are still possible as all you'll need to do is encode media in to base32 and then spew that to brother channel, #hn-images or something. IRC is perfect for long blinding data dumps. If the user opts in to imagery, let the client connect to that channel. Sure you'll loose out on the image if you were not available but irc is like that anyway. Having your client throw [image:~hackernews_logo] to indicate that you've posted an image is no less spam than someone announcing that they've changed their nick to "doublerabbit|Zzz".