That's what you get for centralization combined with a couple of decades of poor architecture choices.
signed,
the wumpus who gave the world EFNET
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the wumpus who gave the world EFNET
Brings back memories of tcl/tk eggdrop bots, buying shell accounts to keep your nick held while you were offline, and automating server jumping so you wouldn’t be banned for idling
I learned a lot from that era, not only about social skills, but also asynchronous programming from watching msa make the irc server code much more scalable.
> Today, I'm strong. Today, I'm confident. Today, I am social. Today, I am patient. Today, I am accepting. Today, I have a cause. This would not be the case, if yesterday, for me, was not IRC.
Do you also agree that "IRC, is a transcended level of humanity, that values you for all the other genes and experiences that make you, you - unlike the "real" world which is utterly focused on nothing"?
Source: https://www.irc.com/lets-take-irc-further
(Yes, he bought irc.com too.)
I certainly did! After spending a couple of years (at 16-17) idling on IRC and picking stupid teenage fights, out of boredom I learned to code... in the mircScript language, to write silly bots and stuff. This is what motivated me to learn programming seriously.
Or any adult browsing a website with uncalled-for javascript for that matter.
In an IRC client, there is no difference between two channels on the same server and two channels on different server. Switching between channels is seamlessly.
Discord fails there pretty hard.
I wont speak to the privacy issues/data issues, but as a user, Discord has honestly been fantastic and beyond my expectations. Its' API for making integrations has been great too.
Like, I usually are only interested in a few channels on a given Discord server but by default, I get everything.
How do you switch between different servers or different channels? In my IRC setup, I can switch to the next channel with activity with the press of a key. Or get a list of channels with a search input to jump to.
I admit it's less manouverable by keyboard only (or I haven't dug around enough), but maybe the likeness to self-hosted IRC servers is still to broad and every Discord server is more like an IRC channel, but with segmented topics you can hide (like muting everything regarding sports or spoilers or cars).
Are you asking for discoverability of unknown (to you) Discord servers? Because that would be the closest likeness to an IRC channel search for me, which I rarely used.
I discover the project/hobby/group I am interested in through word of mouth or web, and then find their IRC channel (or now Discord server).
But I really meant how to switch to channels on different discord servers you are subscribed to.
In my IRC mindset, channels aren't attached to particular servers. They exist all in the same bubble. Not so with Discord.
The Discord UI prevents me from seeing activity in the channels I'm interested in if they are on a different Discord server. Quickly jumping to another channel on another server is not possible AFAIK (there are keybindings for switching servers or going to the next or next unread channel on the same server though).
I think that is due Discord being tied to livestream gaming. When you livestream, it makes more sense that you don't switch to other channels during that session. You are more involved with that channel.
I could definitely see a usecase for creating your own views though where you could tag in specific channels from various servers.