Issues with the Discord Service - We might move again.

IIRC, IRC can't run well on my computer.
That was a joke please don't lynch

Pun aside, I'm not familiar with IRC and would prefer Slack. I'm already part of a forum's chat there (HB Slack chat) and I like the app. I really wouldn't want skype, though; groups on Skype just have a tendency to die for me.

@[deleted] Why don't you check out mibbit.com

tn5421 wrote

@[deleted] Why don't you check out mibbit.com

Is that an IRC client? If we move to IRC, I really would have no problem downloading it. I just find Slack to be very convenient.

It's a web irc client. The point is that you don't have to download anything and can IRC from your browser.

Yeah, Mibbit let's you join IRC channels directly from the site. I find it a bit crappy compared to desktop clients tbh.

He said he is unable to run desktop clients, I believe, so mibbit is better than nothing as far as he is concerned.

BACK
TO
SLACK

I knew this day would come. I'm voting slack for a simple reason that I loved it and if IRC wins I'm not joining it because of past inconveniences~

IRC or slack, either is fine with me. I love them both.

I say IRC just for the sake of simplicity. It's been tried and true, and if it's the same as I remember then there won't be images in the chat, so people will be more likely to post that content on the forums instead.

Otherwise I'd be fine with Slack if we are gonna go to a downloadable client again. Or whatever really, I trust our staff will make the best decision on this and I don't even know anything about the other options in this poll anyway (besides Skype, which I never use)

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Hammer and Chisel included a clause, that states that every
message we send, and the channels we own, belong to them to freely manipulate and
share. Due to the global outcry, we have been considering yet another move of chat
service.

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Quite frankly I find myself offended at the thought Discord believes they can claim
ownership of content that we post using their service, free or not.

Also notable is that the devs deliberately danced around providing an actual answer
as to what they use the data for (ask @[deleted] for source)

Great, so basically Discord is the equivalent of Facebook and the NSA? That's some pretty fucked up shit

I would prefer Slack, but I wouldn't mind IRC.

Rii wrote

To anyone voting irc, what you may find interesting is that Slack actually has an irc gate.
Meaning, everyone who wants to use the multiple clients available for pc, mobile, linux, etc can use that, and everyone looking for an IRC experience can use that. A win win situation.
(bias intensifies)

tbh their TOS isn't much different from Discord's

>Meaning, everyone who wants to use the multiple clients available for pc, mobile, linux, etc can use that, and everyone looking for an IRC experience can use that. A win win situation.

What if what I want is to filter out people who won't use IRC?

While I'm not on much at the moment, making an effort to be moreso now, when/if the change happens I'd prefer it over to IRC or Slack. Already forced to use every chat client going already though so I'm easy.

CompaIsMyWaifu wrote

It's been tried and true, and if it's the same as I remember then there won't be images in the chat, so people will be more likely to post that content on the forums instead.

I certainly won't. I'm not going to the forum to create a post or thread just to post a single image. I want to post it somewhere where people can immediately give their opinion etc on said image. The forum isn't live so you can't get the reactions. It's just not the same.

Things I require are

>iOS app
>Ability to upload images from local storage/camera in-app
>Hotlinking

Discord and Slack are very good options for me.

The forum seems to formal for a simple post of an image which is why I rarely post. I like my posts to be of high quality and not just a simple image.

I'd go for slack myself, if there wasn't a paywall on viewing more than the last 10k posts.

The community limitations for Slack are pretty shit too;

can be forced into every channel
can't block or mute annoying people
no decent banning system

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IRC has a tonne of great mobile apps.

Rii wrote

Mew wrote

>Meaning, everyone who wants to use the multiple clients available for pc, mobile, linux, etc can use that, and everyone looking for an IRC experience can use that. A win win situation.

What if what I want is to filter out people who won't use IRC?

Why would you want to do that?

Well, there's some value in restricting a community like that. If you picked say, Skype, you'd get a different set of people participating than if you picked IRC, and I tend to think of the later as much more desirable. I wasn't totally serious though. I just like IRC. I've also been on IRC channels that were connected to Slack, and they are kind of awkward.