Hi, I’d like to say, just because a bunch of people follow a trend doesn’t mean
that’s a good idea. History is full of stories about foolish people following
trends and bad ideas which lead to their demise.
Abandoning irc, {which is one of the few online platforms that allows you to
choose/create your own client and doesn’t require a phone number or email to
chat} is just another example of what I consider shortsightedness at best.
It amazes me how easy it is to trick people into leaving the platform where
they can communicate freely on the internet without censorship, advertising or
data harvesting.
Discord is most definitely NOT an irc replacement. It is spyware and it’s user
experience is horrible. They seem to have a large team of developers but it
can’t even resize properly. I guess the developers were more interested in the
data harvesting code. Everytime I’ve tried it, my computer fan starts running
like crazy which means it’s up to no good.
The same thing could be accomplished without the spyware by simply having a
forum where people continually talk into a small number of threads.
Yes it supposedly has voice chat. Do you think I want to voice chat with
strangers I meet online? Not yet but if I ever do there are already other voice
chat solutions.
As for the person who keeps complaining about me banning people , his irc
account was registered 2 years 6 days ago. He had 691 days in which he could
have joined #fpc and helped make the channel a success, yet he refused.
Now he suddenly cares about fpc community. I think this is great! I have urged
him to invite all the trolls and bots that I banned from #fpc to his channel.
Who knows ? Maybe he can get them interested in using fpc and writing some
code. That would be a win win situation for all of us.
If there is anyone here who wants to help reverse the downward spiral and help
with chat support please come support the only chat channel owned by developers
and long time fpc enthusiasts. If not I’ll just assume there is nobody
available and that would be a sad situation indeed regarding the population and
health of the fpc community.
The details are here
IRC.LIBERA.CHAT Ports [6667 plaintext ] or [6697 secure] channels #fpc
pm joanna in forums if you need help or want to be added to invite list.
I have used hexchat irc client or irc cloud but there are many irc clients to
choose from.___
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