IRC is good when there's active chat (and I do miss that
side of IRC), but a messaging system, it doesn't work for
me. Jumping through hoops with screen etc, doesn't do it
for me. :(
Yea. It's too bad BBS SysOps don't use IRC much. I mean for
general chit chat. There's also MRC . There are meets on
Fri and Sat night. MarisaG has a synchronetbbs fan discord
server. Same thing there. Whenever I stop by nobody is
home. I suppose if I hung around long enough I'd run into
somebody.
All of the social media outlets have chat services. Maybe
that's the problem? Too many choices?? ;-)
IRC (like a live party-line) doesn't appeal to me. I would
rarely find the time to sit a pc at a specific time to do that
one thing. Store-n-forward like echomail, or even the groups
On 09-07-20 19:18, Ogg wrote to All <=-
IRC (like a live party-line) doesn't appeal to me. I would
rarely find the time to sit a pc at a specific time to do that
one thing. Store-n-forward like echomail, or even the groups
on Telegram are more suitable for me. Telegram has the added
feature of allowing you to kick into live-chat with anyone
currently online if you want.
That is probably quite true. For example, I see several
"Fidonet" groups on Facebook. Anyone could break into a live
Messenger chat if they are online. Then there is the Twitter-
verse and others. Everyone is so spread out.
for me, irc for like 20 years has been this:
+ post a msg in the channel.
+ someone sees it later and replies.
+ OR, someeone is active and we talk live
nothing wrong with that. i prefer it, actually.
MRO wrote to Ogg <=-
IRC (like a live party-line) doesn't appeal to me. I would
rarely find the time to sit a pc at a specific time to do that
one thing. Store-n-forward like echomail, or even the groups
for me, irc for like 20 years has been this:
+ post a msg in the channel.
+ someone sees it later and replies.
+ OR, someeone is active and we talk live
nothing wrong with that. i prefer it, actually.
I have fond memories of IRC in the 1990s and early 2000s,
and made some lifelong friends. There's a few people I am
still in contact with, including one guy who I first chatted
to on IRC over 25 years ago.
we catch up every Friday for a coffee and a walk (or I------------------------------+
sometimes push him in a fartlek session, so he can be ready
for a future 5k run :) ^^^^^^^
Twitter is ugly, it's just a messy stream of whatever. And
I find Instagram the same, with photos. I haven't used
Twitter in over 10 years, and I rarely use Instagram,
because I don't cope with with these unstructured streams
for that type of communication.
On 09-08-20 19:14, Ogg wrote to Vk3jed <=-
My first experiences using irc was on dialup to an ISP. I
could not tie up the line too long with text chats.
By the time I had separate lines, the simple chats with yahoo
messenger, icq, etc.. and pidgin to tie them all together in
one app, was good enough, and seemed better than irc alone.
Anyone could post a message, and it would be there for the
recipient the next time they came online.
I had to look that up. I thought that was something like a
burping contest but using other bodily resources. :/
I tried twitter when following some updates during an election
when my tv reception was not happening. The experience was
horrible with people interjecting with offtopic comments.
My first experiences using irc was on dialup to an ISP. I
could not tie up the line too long with text chats.
so I couldn't stay online sitting around in IRC chat rooms^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
waiting for a reply.
That was brutal. Perhaps it made sense when a group of people
could coordinate a meet-up on IRC at a specific time. But it
was hit'n'miss for me.
Rheingold's book on virtual communities (available online free these days) talks about IRC in one chapter. In the (mid?) '90s that he writes about, idling with bouncers and the like was the exception, not the norm. People were online for a limited period of time, and there to talk. It was purely real-time communication, not the horrible stripped-down forum/mailing list thing people use it as these days.
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