On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:40, Cord Beermann wrote: > >Why not move it to Jabber? More people use and know what Jabber is these > > days than IRC. > > Jabber doesn't have any useable non-graphic Clients. So write one or grab one of the existing ones and make it not suck. > for the usual one > to one communication it might be ok, but for groupchat (and thats what > most people do on IRC it simply sucks. By design, IRC encourages people to do truly obnoxious things, like spamming the channel to announce they're going away, or indicating their status with nicknames (which also spams the channel). You also get spammed on IRC whenever someone joins or leaves a channel. Jabber prevents this by providing a real presence system. Jabber provides all the same "modes" IRC does in group chat, except bans actually work because they're not stupidly tied to some arbitrary netmask. Nicknames changes, joins and parts aren't spammed to the channel unless your client adds them in for you (but changes are still reflected in the listing of who is in the chat). Jabber networks don't go on begging sprees for funding. OFTC will invariably spam you like every other IRC network since the dawn of time the first moment they get more than a few users. IRC was a good early effort, but 20 years have passed and IRC is still plagued by the same problems it started with and shows no signs of improvement over time, just like Windows. Isn't it time the world moved on already? -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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