Jama

Jama

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I have never had it explained to me why IRC was better than Discord or whatever. My experience with IRC was "not knowing 90% of what was said in a day because I had to log in and reopen the client every day after most people signed off". And since, at least in my experience with mIRC, you have to be connected to see anything typed in the chat, I found myself out of the loop a lot. Is that what people liked, the transient nature of it?

I get not liking an app constantly pushing new features and popups and VC shit, and I utterly despise discord being used as a wiki or forums or any information storing repository replacement. But I still see it as an IRC upgrade.

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to me, the transient, ephemeral... well it was more live really. this nature of irc is what i miss most.

someone compared discord to say your favorite IRL hangout place (community center or mall, park, playground or whatever): whenever you visited that place, you would be able to see any interaction that took place there. while in actuallity those places are closer to irc in the sense that "you had to be there"

sure you can always read stuff off bash.org or whatsitcalled, but those logs dont capture how it felt to hang out with your friends in your friendsgroups' more or less private irc channel

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