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Anyone uses IRC? Why?
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IRC is great but I think discord recreates a lot of the functionality with a "web 2.0" or whatever feel that newer internet users are used to and more comfortable with. I like IRC but it was the dominant chat protocol when I was growing up. I like bulletin board style forums too. Things move on and not always for the better.
Man I grew up in the age of forums, and I never got the hang of em. Just felt like the design goals were wasted negative space and the purposeful inability to know who is responding to whom.
There's a lot of forum fans, so there must be some appeal, but fuck me if I can ascertain what that might be.
I never did any IRC, though I wonder if I'd known it at the time if I might've gotten into it.
Discourse seems to have addressed a lot of that. But it seems wasted.space is valued with the bubble chat style interfaces I'm seeing a lot of.