I found myself loving what this guy writes about IRC, and I think a lot of his words will go straight to the heart of specially the older nerds here on Lemmy.

Hope you enjoy.

  • pitninja@lemmy.pit.ninjaEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I used to love IRC and have a fair amount of nostalgia for it. That said, a post advocating for IRC that doesn’t even mention Matrix is failing to discuss the best replacement for IRC. Matrix is the IRC killer. After using Matrix, I don’t understand how anyone could want to go back to IRC with its net splits, non persistent chat history, lack of rich text, etc.

    • 1984@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’ve used matrix myself, it’s awesome. There is a good chance that it really takes off, the more people gets fed up with surveillance capitalism, which I guess is the best phrase to describe things right now.

    • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Irc clients don’t need to be in a web browser, and personally I don’t want persistent chat saved forever. I also just want text much of the time.

      That said, I do find some of the features in discord (and hence in matrix) nice. I just currently have only a support for lemmy in Matrix and haven’t seen groups use those servers yet. Discord hasn’t yet caused a migration.

  • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Still use IRC but it gets really clunky / complicated when you want to have push notifications / persistent history etc… You end up setting up something like ZNC (IRC Bouncer) to act as an always online server and then hooking clients to it persist your online status.

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It works out of the box and completely painlessly with The Lounge.

      It web based so some might not be a fan, but for mobile use it’s pretty great. Just install as PWA on Android or iOS and it’s pretty seamless.