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nitori wrote
Reply to comment by cowloom in anyone else sad that Discord has largely replaced IRC by cowloom
For me, Matrix (or I guess Element) really takes a long time to sync all my chatrooms when I login from a new browser. Not sure if it's just because the server I'm in is shit, and I'm leaning with that because I've been unable to use my Matrix for several days now due to the server itself being down even though the Element client is up (I guess u/emma is wondering now what happened with my testing of her new commits to an experimental branch of Postmill lol)
nitori wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in anyone else sad that Discord has largely replaced IRC by cowloom
Servers should be servers!
This tbh, which is why I call them "guilds" instead (which is the original term anyway before Discord expanded out of its gaming niche)
nitori wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by twovests in anyone else sad that Discord has largely replaced IRC by cowloom
libera.chat's ircd has implemented some of the IRCv3 standard, but funnily despite being the dominant IRC network it's still lacking compared to say tildeverse's IRC which has chat history for example (also from IRCv3)...
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by nitori in anyone else sad that Discord has largely replaced IRC by cowloom
I was under the impression that it wasn't out yet, I didn't even know I could use it
nitori wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by twovests in anyone else sad that Discord has largely replaced IRC by cowloom
IRCv3 has worse adoption than relatively (in regards to other XEPs) new XMPP extensions like OMEMO tbh lol
flabberghaster wrote
I think discord is good usability wise i just wish the replacement to IRC was something you could self host.
I'm worried about what happens when discord stops being free or if it goes away.
neku wrote
if half of your face was forehead you would have a footlong fringe too
cute_spider wrote
Reply to you think you could totally defeat a grizzly bear in hand to hand combat by 500poundsofnothing
Yeah I think if I could land an early Brainbuster or DDT on the grizzly bear then I could dovetail that momentum into a victory
I_got_killed_one_time wrote
Reply to you think you could totally defeat a grizzly bear in hand to hand combat by 500poundsofnothing
hell yeah , bro ....!!
I_got_killed_one_time wrote (edited )
I_got_killed_one_time wrote
I_got_killed_one_time OP wrote
Reply to comment by cowloom in it is breath taking how ugly the elf in the new persona game is by I_got_killed_one_time
her funny animal ears with tufts of funny fur are the only good thing on her head...!
cowloom wrote
not that bad imo, except for the runway-length ears
cowloom OP wrote
Reply to comment by missingno in anyone else sad that Discord has largely replaced IRC by cowloom
From a usability perspective, IRC has aged horribly.
/me agrees
devtesla wrote
Discord replacing IRC is bad. Discord replacing open web forums is a catastrophe for indexable information.
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in anyone else sad that Discord has largely replaced IRC by cowloom
I want to add that I don't mean to be a hater-- A Discord alternative is a LOT of work, especially adding E2EE, which is an important thing. They made a modular ecosystem that is working pretty well. There's a lot I like about it! But this comment was only to address the negatives haha
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by astroaron in This is cool, how do I do this? by astroaron
Hi! I missed this earlier.
Can you tell me what ports specifically these were on, and were you trying to connect to a Caddy server running locally (i.e. at localhost:1234) or somewhere else?
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in anyone else sad that Discord has largely replaced IRC by cowloom
I think IRCv3 is the update to the standard, but it's been brewing for awhile.
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by cowloom in anyone else sad that Discord has largely replaced IRC by cowloom
The onboarding is confusing and alienating to me, and while I'm someone with a high tolerance for that, it makes it hard to recommend it to other folks.
Then there's the performance of the element client. It drains battery and uses a lot of CPU on every device I use it on.
And despite being "e2ee", I only use it for public channels, which make the hurdles of e2ee meaningless (even if channels I were on didn't all have bridges to discords and/or ircs).
I still don't have a mental model for how to do identity/key management with it. Every time I use it, I just make a new account. I understand why keys can't be tied to a username/password, but I would want to at least be able to maintain a consistent identity without having to think about it.
missingno wrote
Discord has a lot of issues, but I really don't ever want to go back to IRC. From a usability perspective, IRC has aged horribly.
hollyhoppet wrote
yes, but irc was really not easy to use for people who weren't the most tech literate, and the alternative those people used before discord was skype (bleeugh).
ideally there would be an easy-to-use, not-for-profit option but we don't really live in a system where projects like that can get enough development resources to solve the usability issues irc and matrix face.
perhaps even an update to the irc standard or something would have been cool.
so like yeah, discord sucks but it does enable more people to connect in an irc-like fashion than irc did. it's a mixed bag.
cowloom OP wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in anyone else sad that Discord has largely replaced IRC by cowloom
What don't you like about Matrix? I've only used it a little, but I didn't have any issues with it.
I'll take the clunkiness of IRC over having my data sold any day
twovests wrote
I am angry about it constantly, but to be fair, IRC is pretty awful. You need to selfhost a bouncer to get a halfway-usable experience. And Matrix is really really bad to use.
Discord should be a public utility! Servers should be servers!
Jenheadjen wrote
Reply to I want y'all to know that I finally won a game of solitaire. by 500poundsofnothing
im so proud of you