Re: [Discuss] What (free software) options are people using for chat?

2016-05-19 Thread John Abreau
There's just no substitute for the classics! Never mind all these newfangled protocols. Ream Men(TM) chat via cuneiform tablets transported by carrier pigeons. Of course, carrier pigeons cannot compete with the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow... On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Dan

Re: [Discuss] What (free software) options are people using for chat?

2016-05-19 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:46:49PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2016 09:19:54 -0400 > john saylor wrote: > > > /join > > > > On 05/18/16 20:43, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > > > It's remarkable that IRC still exists after all these years. > > > > plain

Re: [Discuss] What (free software) options are people using for chat?

2016-05-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 19 May 2016 09:19:54 -0400 john saylor wrote: > /join > > On 05/18/16 20:43, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > > It's remarkable that IRC still exists after all these years. > > plain text chat still allows humans to communicate effectively with > each other. and

Re: [Discuss] What (free software) options are people using for chat?

2016-05-19 Thread john saylor
/join On 05/18/16 20:43, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: It's remarkable that IRC still exists after all these years. plain text chat still allows humans to communicate effectively with each other. and also the minimal display capability required of clients [plain text] makes it very

Re: [Discuss] What (free software) options are people using for chat?

2016-05-19 Thread IngeGNUe
For me the most important feature of chat is encryption. I have used: * For texting, Silence formerly SMSSecure formerly TextSecure -- but everyone is using Signal these days (because it is highly promoted?), so I'm gonna probably move on to that once I get the chance to sit down and work on

[Discuss] What (free software) options are people using for chat?

2016-05-18 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
It's remarkable that IRC still exists after all these years. Mostly because it's free as in freedom. It has it's limitations to be sure, and quite a while ago I thought there were things like Jabber/XMPP that would take over because of the capabilities of the protocols [1] were maturing at the