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mekster on June 23, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ergo – modern IRC server written in Go

What good is a chat platform without mobile notifications?

I don't see how people need to stick with a legacy protocol when there are so many working alternatives.

welterde on June 23, 2022 [–]

Some people prefer to chat on desktop and don't really like the mobile-derived UI and prefer a text-heavy dense layout. Throw in lightweight resource usage as a requirement and suddenly there are not that many working alternatives anymore.

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