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Should we get our own Discord server?
Helepolis:
There is no voice, graphic or any other Skypish/WhatsAppish nature to IRC clients in general.
IRC is nothing more than a simple piece of software that allows you to chat. It is light weight, solid and doesn't needs fancy things to get the job done -> Chat.
Can't really understand why people call it (super) user unfriendly. You just fill out the server you wish to connect to + a nickname and you're done (which would probably be similar on a Discord server or Teamspeak server). Perhaps the interface looks oldschool/ancient and doesn't looks like WhatsApp or Skype and people feel uncomfortable?
Maybe I'm missing something what other people are trying to point out. Though what could possibly be unfriendly about a piece of software that allows you to just chat?
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--- Quote from: [En]glish Muffin on June 20, 2016, 01:42:36 PM ---Any thoughts about this Hele?
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I've looked around the site of Discord. I couldn't help but facepalm the moment I read "It is time to ditch Skype and Teamspeak". And I'm wondering: "Why?".
But let us not bash it for that reason alone. It looks slick and well designed. Exactly as I suspected and mentioned above about the UI thing. The only iffy thing for me is being another Browser thing. IRC is lightweight in comparison, and when it comes to gaming: You're not paying attention to the text chat anyway. Voice-chat is what you need and that is also easily achieved with Teamspeak.
I am sadly with Edible on this, unless there is a real emergency, ditching it like Edible said is odd.
DeityDiz93:
Discord itself is actually still a beta program, so there are still needs in the Discord community for new features that will aid in improving the platform. It's got a lot of great thing behind it already, but it's ever changing, and the truth is that it can still be resource-intensive for some people's systems unlike IRC.
I'm not a frequenter of most IRC deals here mostly because I'm shy, but you folks at MotK do still have a working form of communication already, so I'd say trying out Discord and determining your own stance is the best call when it comes to anything official.
NekoNekoRex:
My IRC client uses about 10 times less system resources then Discord.
I disagree with Edible on the stance that there are no good mobile IRC clients. I use Andchat on my phone and it runs perfectly well. I can run it from the SD card. Lightweight, no ads, has almost all the same features as the reliable Hexchat does on my PC, very little data usage, and it's free. I've never tried to go on PPIRC with it however and I'm pretty sure PPIRC is not friendly with it for some reason, but I don't have trouble connecting to any major IRC networks, or small ones. You might want to bug Suzuran about that if that's an issue.
Also my phone is from like 2010 and it still runs IRC just fine.
To be honest Discord isn't really an IRC alternative, there's nothing that's really an IRC alternative except maybe Telnet. Discord is just too large of a program to really compare to something as lightweight as IRC. While it does enjoy lots of throwbacks from IRC, it's definitely its own thing.
However I will say that Discord was built to be a 'Skype killer' and it definitely wins on that front. Almost everyone I know has migrated from Skype to Discord, and it's a much better, much less bulky and terrible program then Skype. The latency needed is much, much lower and it does all the things Skype does while still being much smaller. It doesn't do video calls yet, however. But only 'yet'.
Edible:
--- Quote from: ExPorygon on June 20, 2016, 11:43:45 PM ---Plus, does IRC have any sort of voice implementation?
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No, but I view this as a positive :V
--- Quote from: NekoNekoRex on June 21, 2016, 11:53:24 AM ---I disagree with Edible on the stance that there are no good mobile IRC clients. I use Andchat on my phone and it runs perfectly well. I can run it from the SD card. Lightweight, no ads, has almost all the same features as the reliable Hexchat does on my PC, very little data usage, and it's free. I've never tried to go on PPIRC with it however and I'm pretty sure PPIRC is not friendly with it for some reason, but I don't have trouble connecting to any major IRC networks, or small ones. You might want to bug Suzuran about that if that's an issue.
Also my phone is from like 2010 and it still runs IRC just fine.
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For what it's worth, I also use AndChat and think it works well enough. My issue is that IRCP being almost 30 years old lacks a lot of modern compatibility, especially with mobile devices. It is notoriously finicky with a roaming connection which can cause frequent disconnects and since data is stored client-side, doesn't allow you to read messages from when you're offline (for instance).
Suwako Moriya:
FWIW I use Yaaic and have had no major issues with it (or at least not recently).