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What's something that's seen as Obsolete, but isn't? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 39 points 3 days ago (4 children)

IRC: simplest way of communicating online, and a bouncer can be availed for free

Forums: great store of knowledge and friendly, helpful people. If you ask a question in discord, nobody will ever see the answer again.

[โ€“] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

I can't related more on the second one. Slack and Microsoft Teams seems to be the default way to communicate in corporate environments.

[โ€“] bob_lemon@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Forums: great store of knowledge and friendly, helpful people. If you ask a question in discord, nobody will ever see the answer again.

The search functions in forums are notoriously terrible though (although someone will inevitably ask you to try using it), so finding anything useful relies on "outside" search engines.

And the linear thread format has been terrible since it was invented (which is probably why discord uses it). You basically need to ignore half the posts to follow the one interesting side line that might end up with a solution.

[โ€“] easily3667@lemmus.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why use IRC when you could use matrix

[โ€“] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago

Because setting up an IRC server is way, way easier than setting up a matrix server. It's also a lot more reliable. The downside is that it's text only

[โ€“] VeldtSchema@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Man, I really want to get back into IRC. Is there any good client you can recommend?

[โ€“] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Halloy seems to be a popular choice on desktop. Goguma on android according to https://libera.chat/guides/clients