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One of my all time favorite sites on the interenet, I am glad there is an archive version. IRC and being ASCII only had their benefits. These days, Discord dis

One of my all time favorite sites on the interenet, I am glad there is an archive version. IRC and being ASCII only had their benefits. These days, Discord displacing IRC, for most people who even have PCs, there is a much different vibe of re-posting meme pics and gifs, or even youtube videos. Yet, I don't know if this is because of the higher production requirements, or not, but there isn't a database of spontaneous funny moments.

naremu 3y ago
Ironically, many of the "respectable" discord servers (i.e. revolving around hobbies people under the age of 18 aren't/can't get into) seem to not allow cross-server emojis (which mostly stops all usage of them and discourages gif-memeing as well). Combined with "compact" mode in user settings, I find myself having a vaguely IRC-like experience in the servers worth participating in. Terrible shame how many of us have come full circle just to do the same things on the corpo's surveillance state owned land instead of our own.
- Demiurge 3y ago
  Yeah, I am getting prompted to subscribe and pay to even participte. Perhaps it's part of the larger theme of capitalism and monetization consuming all parts of human existence, including those that come from a purely artistic or communicative self expression. It's supposed to be part of the technological progress that builds us up, as a society, but I am strugging to fill the bash.org void.
- crtasm 3y ago
  A lot of the Discords I've experienced have a dedicated channel for gifs/memes, seems to work quite well.
- Vorh 3y ago
  The reasoning behind the banning of cross-server emojis in most "respectable" servers is that you can split an image into a 5x5 grid of "emoji" and post images in channels you're not supposed to. It's a mess.
sph 3y ago
> being ASCII only Somehow, in the age of TikTok and Discord, ASCII art has survived <insert amogus ASCII art here>
opan 3y ago
>IRC and being ASCII only had their benefits. I still use IRC every day and you can send unicode emoji, Japanese, etc. just fine (via external tools or copy/paste typically). It's up to the client/terminal emulator/font on the other end to make it look right. Plus posting links to images/videos, either at random public spots or ones you just uploaded to a filesharing site, is pretty common. I have only been to bash.org a handful of times, but multiple channels I'm in have their own bots that can store quotes and spit them back out later, so it's a bit more small and local than bash.org. It's only for single-line messages, though, so not the same as capturing a whole conversation. I do also occasionally grab some lines to dump in a text file for personal enjoyment.
dihrbtk 3y ago
IRC doesn't actually specify an encoding for messages, only limiting each message to 512 bytes IIRC. This could and did cause encoding issues when dealing with non-english language text.
- snvzz 3y ago
  While IRC imposes no such requirement, the world has mostly agreed on utf-8 by now.

naremu 3y ago

Ironically, many of the "respectable" discord servers (i.e. revolving around hobbies people under the age of 18 aren't/can't get into) seem to not allow cross-server emojis (which mostly stops all usage of them and discourages gif-memeing as well). Combined with "compact" mode in user settings, I find myself having a vaguely IRC-like experience in the servers worth participating in. Terrible shame how many of us have come full circle just to do the same things on the corpo's surveillance state owned land instead of our own.

Demiurge 3y ago
Yeah, I am getting prompted to subscribe and pay to even participte. Perhaps it's part of the larger theme of capitalism and monetization consuming all parts of human existence, including those that come from a purely artistic or communicative self expression. It's supposed to be part of the technological progress that builds us up, as a society, but I am strugging to fill the bash.org void.
crtasm 3y ago
A lot of the Discords I've experienced have a dedicated channel for gifs/memes, seems to work quite well.
Vorh 3y ago
The reasoning behind the banning of cross-server emojis in most "respectable" servers is that you can split an image into a 5x5 grid of "emoji" and post images in channels you're not supposed to. It's a mess.

sph 3y ago

> being ASCII only Somehow, in the age of TikTok and Discord, ASCII art has survived <insert amogus ASCII art here>

opan 3y ago

>IRC and being ASCII only had their benefits. I still use IRC every day and you can send unicode emoji, Japanese, etc. just fine (via external tools or copy/paste typically). It's up to the client/terminal emulator/font on the other end to make it look right. Plus posting links to images/videos, either at random public spots or ones you just uploaded to a filesharing site, is pretty common. I have only been to bash.org a handful of times, but multiple channels I'm in have their own bots that can store quotes and spit them back out later, so it's a bit more small and local than bash.org. It's only for single-line messages, though, so not the same as capturing a whole conversation. I do also occasionally grab some lines to dump in a text file for personal enjoyment.

dihrbtk 3y ago

IRC doesn't actually specify an encoding for messages, only limiting each message to 512 bytes IIRC. This could and did cause encoding issues when dealing with non-english language text.

snvzz 3y ago
While IRC imposes no such requirement, the world has mostly agreed on utf-8 by now.