Notices tagged with irc

@wyatwerp like the author said, FOAF was a product of a time when it was normal for most web users to have personal and professional homepages. I can't see how it would be helpful for chat, maybe for finding the chat address of a user by entering their email address or homepage? But you'd still need a chat app using a realtime protocol like #IRC, #XMPP, #Wave, #Matrix, or #WebRTC.
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@alcinnz

@kravietz
> if a SSB client sees a signed message "this is my new account" to somehow link them or auto-follow

... doesn't do anything to allow users to claim a unique username across the network.

> because the existing model works well nobody really cared

This kind of thinking is how #IRC got overtaken by #Slack. IRC "works well" for the existing userbase, so the #UX doesn't get improved, so new users go somewhere else.

@Greg I hope #CreativeCommons HQ are paying attention to this too. Their replacement of #IRC with #Slack as the main community platform has alienated a lot of #SoftwareFreedom people, especially since Slack pulled the predictable bait-and-switch of canning their IRC and XMPP bridges.
@mhoye

I just realized that on September 27 of this year (9 days away) my Freenode IRC username turns 15 years old. Pretty sure its the oldest username i own on the internet.

NickServ (NickServ@services.): Registered : Sep 27 05:17:47 2004 (14y 51w 2d ago)

#linux #freenode #IRC

@moonman I think #IRC ossified once its 1990s userbase was happy. 30+ years later, it does little of what today’s people expect from chat and depends on admins and users remembering cryptic codes to perform needed tasks.