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.
(1/2)
@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.

omg someone implemented voice chat over #irc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R--_ATzE6o