| IRC is terrible the same way it was terrible when I used it 30 years ago. It's Y2K brah if you can't paste an image into chat, your chat is garbage. Chat is more than text, unless you go to meet your friend for coffee and you chat by typing out words on a typewriter and handing sheets of paper back and forth between each other. And that's like one of the ten thousand problems with IRC. "But it's lightweig..." so few people care about how lightweight it is that the statement "nobody cares how lightweight it is" is only off the mark by a millimeter or two. Two more problems are: the ratio of dickheads-to-humans and security flaws so bad that any organization releasing a spec that bad today would be pilloried as either incompetent or actually literally malicious every day, by everyone, all of the time, on hacker news. ps: the limit for IRC is 512 characters. If you try to paste an strace into an IRC chat if your client and server are good it will be broken up into multiple messages, if they are bad the message will be discarded, and regardless of if your message makes it from your client to everyone else, you will probably be autobanned for flooding. |