Lemmy and kbin are gonna get all jacked up in the next couple of days. It was a good ride until everything settles down!

  • NotTheOnlyGamer
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    31 year ago

    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).

      • NotTheOnlyGamer
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        21 year ago

        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.

          • NotTheOnlyGamer
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            21 year 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.

          • Boz (he/him)
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            11 year ago

            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.

        • FinalFallacy
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          11 year ago

          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.

            • azura
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              41 year ago

              as someone with sight problems, I could not agree more.

          • NotTheOnlyGamer
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            11 year ago

            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.