Comment by anthk
3 years ago
With jabber I could
- play simple games on Jabber thru the client, like chess or checkers
- inline LaTeX with Kopete
- embedded YT videos with Kopete or some Pidgin plugins
- automatic message translating with Google Translate or similar. It just worked. Again, it was a Pidgin plugin
- OTR/Omemo encrypted chats
- video/audio chats
- multi user chats
- file transfers
- chat from either text mode or from a graphical client
- chat with Gtalk peers
- scribble in a whiteboard
Please, gen-Z ers, stop comparing Discord with IRC, you just show ignorance. If any, compare Discord with Jabber and what we had from 2007 to ~2013-14 and beyond.
IRC and IM are totally different platforms with polar opossite usages. IRC chats were made to be public in order to join a public conversation, IM was made to chat between people you already knew, and sometimes in a group with few peers.
I have noticed this too about gen-Z XMPP ignorance, IRC seems more widely known despite many of them growing up using XMPP. Perhaps gen-Z were too young to care back then, and nowadays open IRC communities appear more plentiful.
Sure. When we were teens/early adults using (a)MSN/AIM/Gtalk they were either toddlers or young children. Too young to be aware.
When they became teens classical IM platforms began to decay/rot because of social media and mobile messengers.