Post B3BnhfH4AglSQ8nCVM by jonty@chaos.social
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 (DIR) Post #B3BnhdZQVSGL8VMpqS by jonty@chaos.social
       2026-02-10T20:16:18Z
       
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       Everyone going "Just move to IRC!!!" clearly has no understanding of *why* other things have been more popular than IRC for the last ~12 years, and why this won't happen.Before you reply with "lol IRC is great you don't get it": I say this as a die-hard IRC user who worked for an IRC client company and also ran a large organisation on IRC for the last decade (until we finally gave up and moved to Mattermost this year).
       
 (DIR) Post #B3BnhfH4AglSQ8nCVM by jonty@chaos.social
       2026-02-10T20:18:19Z
       
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       That said, I wish it was true. I want IRC to win.But without people actually wanting the protocol to move forward, servers changing, and new clients being written to handle it, it ain't gonna happen.
       
 (DIR) Post #B3BnhgEyZwgdPwp2sy by jonty@chaos.social
       2026-02-10T20:23:48Z
       
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       And to be clear, it's not like people haven't tried. They really, really, really have.But have you ever tried convincing people to modify a protocol that is mostly unchanged since 1993, across a massive set of servers that are largely derived from the same codebase but warped in interesting ways, and run entirely by volunteers who go to war with each other every decade.
       
 (DIR) Post #B3Bnhh2Fck6NslsOgq by erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
       2026-02-10T20:26:41.902502Z
       
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       @jonty I keep thinking that step 1 of modernising IRC is turning on the chat history extension and step 2 involves your IRC server disconnecting anyone who tries to login with emacs, irssi or basically any IRC client with a featureset stuck in 1993