It’s still out there - waiting. There’s a bunch of active servers, and I have Ambassador for Pale Moon installed. I just never have cause to use it instead of Discord anymore. I think that says more about me than IRC.
The problem of any social network that starts organically. If you’re invested in the community and not specifically in the software, when people move on, you will too.
IRC doesn’t have gif support and let’s be honest. Emojis might be an optional requirement for some people, but gifs are the foundation of communication for a lot of people these days.
GIF support, no, but I think most clients I’ve seen have the ability to display Unicode emoticons, which would help for 99% of the image use. As far as GIFs, I guess you’d need to build an IRC client that does the same thing as Discord - display a “preview” of a properly-coded image link. Because certainly, it’s easy enough to search giphy or tenor and drop a link in chat.
I’ll readily admit the low-effort ability to react with an icon is both a blessing and a curse. It’s sometimes enough to drop in an icon or two as a response, saving mental bandwidth but still responding.
Eternal September? At this time of day, at this time of year, localised entirely within the fediverse?!
Can I see it?
Actually, wait. I was on Usenet, and IRC, and Jabber…
I guess Green Day’s song becomes ever more poignant on the Internet - Wake me up when September ends (hint: it does not end, it is eternal).
I miss IRC if you want the truth.
It’s still out there - waiting. There’s a bunch of active servers, and I have Ambassador for Pale Moon installed. I just never have cause to use it instead of Discord anymore. I think that says more about me than IRC.
yeah but my peeps gone like 20 years ago!
The problem of any social network that starts organically. If you’re invested in the community and not specifically in the software, when people move on, you will too.
Let’s have an F in the chat for all the people we were “friends forever” with 20 years ago, and have completely lost track of.
IRC doesn’t have gif support and let’s be honest. Emojis might be an optional requirement for some people, but gifs are the foundation of communication for a lot of people these days.
Ban GIFs worldwide, TBH. It is mostly spam IMO.
as someone with sight problems, I could not agree more.
GIF support, no, but I think most clients I’ve seen have the ability to display Unicode emoticons, which would help for 99% of the image use. As far as GIFs, I guess you’d need to build an IRC client that does the same thing as Discord - display a “preview” of a properly-coded image link. Because certainly, it’s easy enough to search giphy or tenor and drop a link in chat.
I’ll readily admit the low-effort ability to react with an icon is both a blessing and a curse. It’s sometimes enough to drop in an icon or two as a response, saving mental bandwidth but still responding.