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It has a better interface than everything else by a long mile. People like using it. I like using it even though voice call quality is way worse than competition, the app is bloated and slow but the interface is just so nice: readable, clear, intuitive.

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Hard disagree that it has a better ui than everything else. Every time I’ve used it, it feels like I’m at a carnival with everything trying to compete for my attention. Utterly distracting and feels childish, at least for me. I’m glad that you like the ui though.

Just curious, which alternative do you like more with free message retention. I think free message retention is absolutely needed for open source projects.

We used to connect a logging bot to our IRC channels back in the day :)

...i do that with slack. :D

you irc to slack, or you use a bouncer with slack, or both?

I just wrote a script that i captures the network requests as i scroll through, cleans it, outputs to a nice file that i can then insert into a database.

cool, that's a clever idea. :)

For me, I just have to remember there is a huge gap on this thing, it's really trying to cater to a lot of different constituents, and when you look at it that way, it's winning. I mean sure, they add some shit and I'm just like.. wtf is this animated emoji reply shit that is taking up my screen and bothering me. But, if it look at it for what I suppose it's supposed to be... fun... well, it's pretty fun.. so let them have fun I suppose. :) :)

Agreed, granted I'm over 50 so get off my lawn but "busy-dizzy" is how the Discord UI makes me feel.

> It has a better interface than everything else by a long mile

its a joke compared to irc

Many, many more would consider any UI associated with IRC to be the joke. The separation is your level of nostalgia.

nostalgia? I actively use it, it is a great tool

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