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by doublerabbit 1084 days ago
> You share it the same way you share it on r*ddit. Upload it to imgur, imbb or whatever.

I can drag and drop with Discord, Slack and Teams. And look its there!

No one wants to click links. I updated my post, but to send any type of media is a tragic-mess for IRC. Including if its hosted on my own domain as my own nick!

> It's telling you exactly what you need to do. If you don't like having services, don't use a server that has services.

Right, sure.

> You can't use BitchX on this network" I've been on networks where mIRC has been banned. You're free to make your client respond how

And to a user who wants to join and connect, I don't have time to do that anymore. That it self is tech-savy stuff. Not so easy for the average user. It's not common, but networks have implemented.

> IRC is just a tool. If IRC is boring, it's a reflection of you and your friends.

IRC is a protocol, the client is the tool to connecting to the network. IRC as a whole provides the services to communicate and if no one is communicating as like "your not 1337 because your not using a znc bouncer with irssi"

Or those folk who already know each other in channel and don't want to reach out to new folk even introduce newbies to the channel.. you don't have a voice.

Or just a channel with a topic that's not been changed since 2017.

I -really- dislike Discord, it sucks. However at least it's easy and tacky enough to allow you to introduce yourself rather than black text on a white background. It allows you to enjoy media, show off stuff.

And up until recently could use any nick even if had been taken.

If you want to host your own channel on IRC you need to understand cryptic flags, Host a bot. Know how to operate chanserv.

YIM, MSN Messenger and all those services had it right, games, media and voice.

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> No one wants to click links.

I actually prefer that my chat client doesn't auto follow links, so I have a choice of whether to look at them, and so they don't interrupt conversations by taking up huge space in the chat.