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I'd love to know if the author still lives in IRC after the Freenode meltdown.

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Freenode was smoothly recombobulated into Libera Chat, so the meltdown shouldn't have affected much.

oh hi. Yes I moved to Libera a while back and am still there regularly.

He's on IRC, @aaronpk in #indieweb within Libera.

I could've written this article at that time. I was all about Weechat and IRC in general. Unfortunately, the Freenode situation was what finally made me jump ship.

I've been using Discord every since and while I'd still prefer to use IRC, I don't mind it nearly as much as I originally expected to.

It's surprising to me that IRC diehards jumped to Discord and not to hosting Matrix servers.

Its because Matrix is just that bad.

Would you elaborate? What makes it bad?

The most used client, Element, is somehow worse that the Discord electron client, believe it or not. My experience of joining Matrix channels is through sluggish and clunky UI that makes me want to tear my hair out.

I would reconsider if there was a half-decent TUI client that doesn't have 250ms latency to send a bloody plaintext message on a top-shelf Linux workstation. Is it that hard to make it run as smooth as mIRC did on my old Pentium II?

agreed that Element Web is clunky, although we’re working on it. Perhaps try https://github.com/ulyssa/iamb or weechat-matrix for your TUI? Or if on macOS, Element X is a pleasure to use as a truly native GUI client.

Cheers, I might give iamb a go.

Basically everything about it.

The clients, the server, the org that manages it.

most stuff just moved to libera without much change

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