Timeline for What does chat offer that IRC does not?
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| Oct 18, 2010 at 15:56 | comment | added | Welbog | The more things I read on Meta about IRC the more I think that no one actually uses IRC on a regular basis. You seem to recognize that IRC is a protocol but then complain about the lack of features of its common clients and implementations. Protip: You are already re-inventing a protocol and the clients that use that protocol. Granted, there are a few things that Chat can do that are outside of the scope of IRC's protocol, and that's why it's OK to not be based on IRC. But the vast majority of the anti-IRC sentiment around here targets the wrong things. | |
| Oct 18, 2010 at 5:54 | history | edited | Grant Paul | CC BY-SA 2.5 | >_______________________________________________________> |
| Oct 18, 2010 at 5:33 | comment | added | Rex M | "no reason you cannot write an IRC server in pure ASP.NET MVC"..."making logs available and searchable"..."just have NickServ use OpenID" wow, all that does sound really easy! Trivial, as you say. Definitely so easy it's a wonder you didn't just do it! | |
| Oct 18, 2010 at 2:53 | comment | added | Peter Ajtai | So, if you're suggesting to wrap an IRC in a friendly UI, why not just get rid of IRC and keep the friendly UI? Oh wait, that's what chat is. | |
| Oct 18, 2010 at 1:04 | comment | added | Aarobot | Why would they jump through all these silly hoops just to create something that's less user-friendly? | |
| Oct 17, 2010 at 19:20 | comment | added | balpha StaffMod | I would really like to write a response to this. I have read your post at least ten times and I have honestly tried to take it seriously. Unfortunately, I have utterly failed. And your last sentence didn't exactly help with that either. | |
| Oct 17, 2010 at 18:31 | comment | added | Greg Hewgill | You can connect using your favourite IRC client, today. There's no need for the SO team to do anything. | |
| Oct 17, 2010 at 18:24 | history | answered | Grant Paul | CC BY-SA 2.5 |