After ten years away from Linux, all the IRC GUIs still lack. Returning to console IRC feels like logging on for the first time in 1995.
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Replying to @headius
I'm not much of an IRCer myself, but I guess most folks use web clients nowadays.
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Replying to @thiagoarrais
Everyone that uses IRC to collaborate on JRuby uses a native client, I believe. Anecdotal, but I like having a separate tool.
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Replying to @headius
have a look at latest xkcd it's spot-on for you :D or try Franz
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Replying to @zepag
You know the real truth is that IRC is the one chat service that has remained constant. That's why I don't jump on the new ones.
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That may be true, but it's significantly more intimidating for newcomers.
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I still contend there's a market to be made building one of these overcomplicated collab apps *atop* IRC. It's just a protocol
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I don't see how that's significantly different/better than providing an IRC bridge like Gitter and Slack
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IRC bridges have no user presence across the wire. It ends up being simulated. Real IRC-backed would have real users connected
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According to one of the Diesel core team who use the Gitter IRC bridge, it does real users
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