[Discuss] What (free software) options are people using for chat?

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Thu May 19 12:46:49 EDT 2016


On Thu, 19 May 2016 09:19:54 -0400
john saylor <js0000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> /join
> 
> On 05/18/16 20:43, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:
> > It's remarkable that IRC still exists after all these years.  
> 
> plain text chat still allows humans to communicate effectively with
> each other. and also the minimal display capability required of
> clients [plain text] makes it very flexible [and unix friendly].
> 
> people just keep usin' it!

But John, IRC is ancient. It's ugly plain text. It should be replaced
by a system, from Freedesktop.org, that replaces IRC's simple API with
something more modern and complex: Something that integrates completely
with your Facebook account, and requires Gnome on the server end.

:-)

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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