Eugen RochkoFeb 9

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092

We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon, and I think there are plans to do the same for our Patreon community Discord. The harder part will be untangling my gaming communities from this…

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@Gargron don't forget us IRC folks have been working to reach feature parity with discord the whole time that people have been moving away from it

it's a pretty good alternative these days!
Feb 9 at 3:50pmWeb
Show threadweed stallmanFeb 9
@pounce @Gargron What are some of the features IRC is implementing these days that would be appealing to Discord users?
Show threadpounceFeb 9

@incentive @Gargron https://ircv3.net/ has some good information, but to name a few i don’t think many people know about:

  • persistent history (now integrated into several ircds and most clients)
  • seamless image/file upload from the app
  • multi-line and -paragraph messages
  • utf-8
  • typing indicators
  • proper replies
  • emoji reactions
  • in-app registration
  • account profile pictures / descriptions / display names
Welcome - IRCv3

Welcome to the IRCv3 Working Group. We're a group of IRC client and server software authors working to improve the IRC protocol.

Show threadweed stallmanFeb 9

@pounce @Gargron Thanks. Got some learning to do today.

I still use IRC off-and-on but never kept up with protocol updates. Plus I use Polari on Gnome so I'm guessing they have restricted a lot of these features for the sake of minimalism.

Show threadahoyboyhoyFeb 9
@pounce @Gargron better to plug xmpp I'd say, open internet standard with a much healthier ecosystem. No shade to IRC, many great communities there that I engage with via bridge.