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It's a shame that the old guard refused to modernize. Talk to IRC or Jabber fans and they despise basic things like emojis, let alone important things like preserving offline messages and ease of access. There are hills to die on, and they died on too many hills.


> Jabber fans and they despise basic things like emojis

We had those for sure before you ever have been in a school.

> let alone important things like preserving offline messages

Jabber is federated, that's up to the service or client. Also, Jabber is extensible, it could be implemented in a breeze.


> We had those for sure before you ever have been in a school.

He's not wrong though. The average IRC user, especially, hates emojis.


Though I think the reason you never see emojis on IRC is just a reminder that nobody uses IRC from their phone, that's how screwed IRC is.




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