Why is it everyone outside of programmers (and even then) always picks chat services with the worst client software available?
IRC had issues but at least the clients were decent.
IRC had issues but at least the clients were decent.
Sure people will rush to say the IRC clients of old opened in .02 nanoseconds after you thought about checking your channels, but that's not useful compared to the fact Discord out of the box has more functionality than an IRC client could ever hope to provide, and looks pleasing to the eye while doing that.
- persistent chat history
- mobile client
- a sane registration / nickname reservation method
Perhaps requests like those don't match your own priorities, but I don't think they're wrong.
That's kind of misleading. "Server-side chat history" is more accurate.
IRC logs are more persistent. It's possible to go back and check them at any time. If I've read the messages, I know they've been logged, and I know they'll still be there.
Discord history, on the other hand, can be deleted from the servers at any time. Often when you go back to double check something that was written previously, it's not there any more.
[1] - https://thelounge.chat/
[2] - https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge
[3] - https://convos.by/
FWIW, there are also shiny front-ends to NNTP. That would actually be a great way to have a threaded messaging system and attachments.