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by lkramer 2392 days ago
I'm in a couple of tiny communities on IRC. There seems to be no growth potential, and when I've suggested switching to IRC in a work setting people look at me as if I'm mad, and starts hugging their webbased monstrocities filled with emojis and memory leaks, but I think I will always prefer IRC.
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Even terminal based weechat is perfectly capable of rendering emojis.
For some reason, maybe cultural, maybe because many clients don't have a nice emoji picker, they seem to be used less though in my experience (which is fine by me).
emojis are old school, i don't use anything unless it has full gif support now.

Gotta have a way of putting up baby yoda sipping gifs when people ask how i'm doing

And posting gifs for some reaction is more rage inducing on my end. 99.999% of the time, a gif is absolutely unneeded and unwanted.
Does rage not seem like a bit of an overreaction to things like gifs and emoji?
Check their username.
Also perfectly capable of leaking memory in 2019: https://weechat.org/files/changelog/ChangeLog-2.6.html#v2.6