We could use an IRC channel somewhere.

Kinja'd!!! by "bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
Published 08/26/2017 at 22:51

Tags: irc ; chat
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Thoughts? Ideas on which network to go to? (As far as major networks, I’m on EFNet, Freenode, and Snoonet.)

Replies (11)

Kinja'd!!! "RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
08/26/2017 at 22:57, STARS: 0

Why not Discord instead of IRC?

Kinja'd!!! "bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
08/26/2017 at 23:00, STARS: 1

Because I don’t want to run an entire Chrome instance just to do basically the same thing as IRC? (Slack has the same problem.)

Kinja'd!!! "RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
08/26/2017 at 23:03, STARS: 0

Chrome instance...? Discord can run in any browser and you just run it in a new tab? There are desktop clients too though, or am I misunderstanding? You do need a account though.

Kinja'd!!! "bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
08/26/2017 at 23:06, STARS: 0

The problem is that the desktop clients aren’t really native, they’re Electron-based - basically, they’re running the website in Chrome, inside of a wrapper.

This doesn’t work well on mobile, and it eats your RAM on desktop.

Kinja'd!!! "RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
08/26/2017 at 23:10, STARS: 0

Didn’t know that, huh.

That being said, Discord seems to work fine for me on mobile (my friends and family each have their own server I am on) and my desktop client (on Linux atm) is only using 300mb of RAM out of my 8GB, so not doing too badly.

Kinja'd!!! "MM54" (mm54mk2)
08/26/2017 at 23:24, STARS: 0

There was an oppo IRC channel a while ago but it was a drama/politco-shitstorm most days so I stopped using it. No idea if there’s anything now, but it could be cool.

Kinja'd!!! "Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
08/26/2017 at 23:26, STARS: 0

buy more RAM.

Kinja'd!!! "CB" (jrcb)
08/26/2017 at 23:29, STARS: 1

Like, 50/50 on the shitstorm. Granted, during that point in time (2014/2015) there were just a lot of shitstorms on Oppo that spilled over.

Kinja'd!!! "Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling)
08/26/2017 at 23:58, STARS: 0

I’d tend to say Freenode, but I think something web-based with a backlog that isn’t based on something being connected at all times Would be better for us.

Kinja'd!!! "Xyl0c41n3" (i-am-xyl0c41n3)
08/27/2017 at 04:21, STARS: 0

Slack has an app. No need to use a browser. And it works quite well on mobile.

Kinja'd!!! "Funktheduck" (funktheduck)
08/27/2017 at 07:55, STARS: 0

I use the discord app on my phone. Haven’t had any issues