Comment by LargoLasskhyfv
5 days ago
No. You meant provisions for simplified automated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis
That aside, does it really matter if one can attach reactions to one text, spanning just one, or several lines, instead of 'reacting' sequentially in the following lines?
Discord, Slack etc. are just conveniences for lazy smombies which find IRC too hardcore, or smth. Like irremovable training wheels on a bicycle. Or mistaking a 'bumper car' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_cars ) for something highway capable.
All of that complaining is equal to the ppl moving into so called gentrified places, only to mourn that the character which made that place interesting has been lost. By too much uptight twats moving in there.
Use it, or lose it!
It doesn't matter what I think about the feature. People clearly enjoy the feature and IRC will never have it because IRC cannot acquire new features like that. Even if the IRCv3 group write a specification, it won't be widely adopted.
Someone could easily do it in a way similar to how apples text reactions work. If you don't support imessage or are on an older version of imessage you just get "Doe liked this" or something like that
The IRCv3 people tried and it never caught on. This is because they don't control the big implementations.