RobustIRC is a regression
reddit / irc

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Cronyx · 2015-10-13 13:42

Netsplits are a *feature*, not a bug. You don't "fix" features.

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blueskin · 2015-10-13 19:07

Ew.

RobustIRC sound like someone looked at IRC and thought "How can I make
it like $insert_whatever_service_here ?". No thanks.

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DStoo · 2015-10-13 19:11

> "those who do not understand ~~UNIX~~ IRC are doomed to reimplement
it, poorly"

Kids, not everything 'old' is bad. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel.

Facebook chokes itself to death on a modern 2015 machine with a lot of
chat Windows open and IRC could host hundreds of thousands of users on
1995 machines.

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DStoo · 2015-10-13 19:12

"What if we got rid of all of the different servers and put it all in
the same 'cloud'. And we promise that one cloud will never go down."

The internet was designed to be distributed.

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Lord_Zero · 2015-10-14 02:39

Well they did say promise, and also cloud.

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j4jackj · 2015-10-25 03:47

for once I agree with your spiel.