Bring back? They never left.

Hello, I am "they"

It's "back". You may use it now

you can just go on irc right now you know

While I appreciate what you are getting at, these platforms do not offer equivalent utility. Live screen sharing is the biggest feature that comes to mind for me.

Edit: oh and the reverb fart soundboard button.

"They should bring back user forums" says last man on user forum.

Well people still use those. Idk if you remember how bad irc is though. It’s pretty terrible.

I literally use Usenet every single day

I like most of IRC but line termination and message length limits suck

Fix those and it’s great

Usenet was great until the big spammer who's name I don't remember ruined all the text groups and all the ISP's stopped offering them for free

so in the late nineties I checked out alt. and rec. and they were filled with advert type posts.

@stupidopensourceBS Been saying this for years. The counter-argument I always hear is that IRC's security isn't as good as discord's, but I'm computer stupid so I have no idea if that's true or not.

You’re right, this is an unpopular opinion. That is exactly why people use for instance Discord instead of IRC. Nothing is stopping anyone from going back to IRC or usenet, just that the vast majority of people doesn’t want to.

Who is they? IRC still exists

_xmpp-client._tcp.example.com

Both completely fail to do what users need from a service.