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badly coded _fancy/shiny_ shit with a web interface ;)

Apart from the sarcasm, I'm serious on the web part, which is terrible: all around the world people are "porting" protocols to JSON+HTTP ( example: JMAP[1] ). IRC is awesome[2], but it's not GET & POST and the new kids on the block run away if it's a real protocol instead of a HTTP hack.

[1]: http://jmap.io/

[2]: https://aaronparecki.com/2015/08/29/8/why-i-live-in-irc

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It's because of firewalls.

Sorry, but this is bs.

You could run any application on any port: IRC on port 80 with SSL would still run just fine.

It'll run fine, but I won't be able to connect to it from the inside of a corporate firewall, which doesn't actually grant me access to the internet, but redirects me transparently to an HTTP proxy that only permits HTTP requests to tcp/80 and tcp/443, with SSL interception on the proxy.

You can run whatever you want however you want, but that doesn't change the reality of the enterprise environment.

That's a real problem which I forgot about. Sorry.

The thing is, you really shouldn't be using your corporate network for non-work-related things. Use your own network service for that kind of thing!

Do you want your boss to see your reddit history?

Some of us don't have Reddit histories we'd be ashamed of others seeing.

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