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0 pointszitterbewegung8y ago0 comments

Also , infinite scroll back , a standard set of easy to use clients, hosted services and API integrations.

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kqr8y ago

I fail to see how those things should be part of the protocol. That's like complaining HTTP doesn't support tags for your bookmarks. It's so out of scope.

Unless, of course, you are talking about a user-friendly service offering IRC access to those who do not want to set up their own clients.

So, something like IRCCloud, which does exist, fyi.

aidenn08y ago

Infinite scrollback is only possible with support from the protocol: if you assume that partitions happen between two servers or between the client and the server, then the client will not be able to see every message that happens so cannot provide the scrollback.

rspeer8y ago

Okay. So why isn't IRCCloud better than Slack?

zitterbewegungOP8y ago

I can’t convince my colleagues to use IRCCloud at least people will put up with using slack.

Rocketchat has much more feature parity to slack tbh. Comparing slack to IRC isn’t really fair even though they do the same thing.

I have used irc and slack and slack’s ease of use is its asset. I used freenode in high school and college to teach myself scheme. The barrier to entry is not something that can be explained as just use IRC.

bphogan8y ago

Disagree about barrier to entry.

I run an office hours chat for my online classes powered by IRC. I use KiwiIRC as the front-end.

Students need only the web address of the web page I want them to go to. When they get there, they need only a username.

No signup, no verification, none of that. They're online, getting help in seconds.

Individual public channels requiring nickserv registration and all that? that's another story.

But seriously - the barrier to entry to get started is this:

https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/?##irc_can_be_ea...

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