I chose the life, it didn’t choose me. I could have walked away from it a long time ago, and I’ve certainly shifted my focus over the years. But I still hold the heft and halter, the on…
Yeah, this is a based-ass article and pretty well sums up my misgivings with Discord. It’s… Genuinely too ephemeral. Half the time I’m using it, all I’m thinking is “fuck, I miss IRC.”
It also remains fairly popular with FOSS projects, although it’s been split up with Discord as it’s touched in the article, but also with Matrix which should be the path to take if not IRC.
The only thing I’m missing is a really good Matrix terminal client; gomuks isn’t there yet and weechat-matrix is unmaintained to focus on weechat-matrix-rs which hasn’t really gotten off the ground, unfortunately. Because if I could use Matrix perfectly in weechat… that’s a game changer.
Is there a mirror of this text anywhere? My BrowserGuard keeps going nuts talking about potential malware/trojan activity on this site.
What is BrowserGuard? This is just a HTTP site without SSL (no HTTPS) that is why the security alert exists.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230307063419/http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5509
Based, bless.
Yeah, this is a based-ass article and pretty well sums up my misgivings with Discord. It’s… Genuinely too ephemeral. Half the time I’m using it, all I’m thinking is “fuck, I miss IRC.”
I think IRC is active for piracy ones, since no modern chat servers would allow them in without risking DMCA strikes/lawsuits.
It also remains fairly popular with FOSS projects, although it’s been split up with Discord as it’s touched in the article, but also with Matrix which should be the path to take if not IRC.
The only thing I’m missing is a really good Matrix terminal client;
gomuksisn’t there yet andweechat-matrixis unmaintained to focus onweechat-matrix-rswhich hasn’t really gotten off the ground, unfortunately. Because if I could use Matrix perfectly in weechat… that’s a game changer.