Comment by NavinF

3 years ago

Jabber had custom emotes and integration with desktop software including video games? I don't remember that.

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anthk  3 years ago

Pidgin had lots of plugins (emotes too) and on integration with video games, that depended on the game and protocol. Twitch uses IRC for instance. You could use any IRC client to comment on your channel, and you could broadcast to Twitch with common tools too, by just using FFMPEG to encode your video stream to h264.

  • NavinF  3 years ago

    > Pidgin had lots of plugins

    Maybe if they spent 1 minute thinking about their software as a product and decided to enable those plugins by default, Pidgin would be relevant in 2023.

    >Twitch uses IRC for instance

    That's not at all what I'm talking about, Twitch has nothing to do with Discord.

    Eg your friend's Discord status shows you what they are doing in-game and many games let you join your friend's team directly from discord.