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I still don't see why we can't just use IRC anymore. The protocol itself is old but reliable, and just needs a good client or two to help people compare it to Discord a bit more favourably. Though I suppose the need for a BNC to fully match it is probably a bit much of an ask for most.
IRC not allowing users to receive messages while offline, not having multiple synced clients, not natively supporting media, not supporting voice or video calls makes it a complete non-starter.
Does the new irc protocol fix any of that?
It takes a lot of work to support encryption and it’s definitely not end to end
It’s not really federated, you make a new account for each server I think.
needs rich messaging support. At very least markdown. Matrix supports images.
And there is XMPP
Trued xmpp, but all the good features are extensions and not all client support them.
Psi+ supports almost everything, but there is no good mobile client
Snicket is pretty good
Right. Its about finding clients with a feature intersection that supports everything.
I dont have time..
Hey you discovered why it never took off in the first place once Google and co got their mitts into it.