Yes, IRC still exists… as does XMPP.
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jqubed@lemmy.world 1 month agoDoes IRC still exist? I remember laughing when I first saw Slack and its early competitors because people were excited about it and when I finally used it I realized it was basically just IRC with a nicer interface. I’m assuming these offer improvements like encryption?
0x0@programming.dev 1 month ago
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 month ago
Nah, there’s tons of features that slack has over irc. To start with inline media (images, audio, video), but most importantly lots of out of the box external integrations and webhooks.
jqubed@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, now there is, but I don’t think a lot of those features were in when I first used it over a decade ago. It became a lot more useful over the years.
Kushan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It didn’t require using arcane commands just to sign up and log in. I love IRC and will always remember it fondly, but it wasn’t easy for a novice to use and that’s why things like slack and discord took off.