> While I loved using IRC 10-15 years ago, the user experience is simply terrible by our standards today (and adding emoji reactions isn't going to solve that imo).
The terrible user experience of slack and discord is why I started using IRC even more. emoji, images, link previews, and the like all lead to annoying/awful spam. Instead of a conversation you get a stream on memes and image macros along with link and twitter spam. I find it derails the conversation and clutters the screen. Nothing less fun than trying to have a conversation and some idiot is posting "related" image macros flooding the chat with garbage.
The bottom line is I want to talk to someone using text. IRC does exactly that.
The terrible user experience of slack and discord is why I started using IRC even more. emoji, images, link previews, and the like all lead to annoying/awful spam. Instead of a conversation you get a stream on memes and image macros along with link and twitter spam. I find it derails the conversation and clutters the screen. Nothing less fun than trying to have a conversation and some idiot is posting "related" image macros flooding the chat with garbage.
The bottom line is I want to talk to someone using text. IRC does exactly that.