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I'd love to know if the author still lives in IRC after the Freenode meltdown.
by gerikson 3y ago
I'd love to know if the author still lives in IRC after the Freenode meltdown.
- arccy 3y agomost stuff just moved to libera without much change
- srgpqt 3y agoFreenode was smoothly recombobulated into Libera Chat, so the meltdown shouldn't have affected much.
- g4zj 3y agoI could've written this article at that time. I was all about Weechat and IRC in general. Unfortunately, the Freenode situation was what finally made me jump ship. I've been using Discord every since and while I'd still prefer to use IRC, I don't mind it nearly as much as I originally expected to.
- uoaei 3y agoIt's surprising to me that IRC diehards jumped to Discord and not to hosting Matrix servers.
- bifrost 3y agoIts because Matrix is just that bad.
- uoaei 3y agoWould you elaborate? What makes it bad?
- sph 3y agoThe most used client, Element, is somehow worse that the Discord electron client, believe it or not. My experience of joining Matrix channels is through sluggish and clunky UI that makes me want to tear my hair out. I would reconsider if there was a half-decent TUI client that doesn't have 250ms latency to send a bloody plaintext message on a top-shelf Linux workstation. Is it that hard to make it run as smooth as mIRC did on my old Pentium II?
- Arathorn 3y agoagreed that Element Web is clunky, although we’re working on it. Perhaps try https://github.com/ulyssa/iamb https://github.com/ulyssa/iamb or weechat-matrix for your TUI? Or if on macOS, Element X is a pleasure to use as a truly native GUI client.
- sph 3y agoCheers, I might give iamb a go.
- bifrost 3y agoBasically everything about it. The clients, the server, the org that manages it.
- mortallywounded 3y agoHe's on IRC, @aaronpk in #indieweb within Libera.
- aaronpk 3y agooh hi. Yes I moved to Libera a while back and am still there regularly.