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Popular IRC client HexChat gets a final release, is no longer maintained
(hexchat.github.io)
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IRC is sadly going away slowly. Which is a shame, it's a great protocol that is easy to implement and simple to work with. Biggest problem I see is its inability to embed images and other multimedia. Had that been the case protocol would live on I feel. We just needed few more channel modes, some that ban or allow specific multimedia and inline image support and we are good.
Some people, if not most who use IRC, would claim otherwise, but there's a reason why Slack became popular even though it's shitty electron application.
I like to think that the last sound ever to be heard on the internet will be someone getting slapped with a wet trout.
What a magical world irc was in the 90s when I was a gay closeted teenager talking to queers from all over the world. When you find your people for the first time. IRC will always hold a special place in my heart. I always keep an irc client on my install... for old time's sake.
๐๐ซ. That's the spirit!