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Should just go back to IRC, this is always the play with something that is "free".
by avgDev 3y ago
Should just go back to IRC, this is always the play with something that is "free".
- qweqwe14 3y agoThe actual, real usability of Discord is way better than IRC's, it's not even close. Every time I tried to join IRC it has been a massive pain in the ass. So first if you want to join anything on libera.chat, you have to register through NickServ and provide an email, which is already nonsense. Why would email be required? And here's the neat part: you can't register if you use Tor/VPN/whatever, which is mad funny and very ironic, considering how IRC is supposed to be this "hacker culture" thing. "Oh but please register from a residential IP", really? Not saying Discord is better in this particular regard, but still. If someone says "this isn't a problem with IRC, just a libera.chat thing", well it doesn't matter because it's the de-facto network for most everything open-source. Notice how I'm not even mentioning all the really obvious usability aspects, like voice/video chat, images and everything else. The general nerd response seems to be "who needs that anyway"/"just send links instead". Literally noone cares about that, it's wasting time, people will just use Discord, which has all the features that are (rightfully) expected.