I briefly talked with avi about implementing this a few days ago, but I've been too busy to look into it. That said, I'm for it. Chat's been basically dead most of the year, ripping it in two with two chat rooms was a terrible idea, but oh well.
I think it'd be worth linking main and #thevan at the least, other channels are optional. Guess it doesn't hurt, but they've been dead for years at this point, so I don't know that it's really worth it.
As for things being recorded, the advantage of IRC is it's only being recorded by other users, not by a proprietary client, and therefor by the company that owns it. How much that really matters to you I guess depends on how much issue you have with a third party having access to that. Personally, I don't think it's a huge deal, but I can understand why some people would be concerned with it. If you're like me and keep logs, Discord doesn't let you store your logs locally on your computer, so it's much more difficult to search old logs if you're looking for something. Even just trying to read older messages from a few hours ago is a lot more difficult, as the client uses an infinite scroll, which forces it to load messages frequently.
I don't really see much point in a Discord-free IRC channel. If you want it kept more discrete, you're better off creating a private channel for yourself and whoever it is you want to talk to, or just PMing them. As avi mentioned, there's already people who log everything on IRC anyway.
Grimstone wrote:aviel wrote:There are plenty of clients that allow you to embed images and videos in IRC. The primary differences with discord is that discord owns all the servers and has a proprietary protocol and client, and that you can see things that were said even when you weren't logged in.
Is that standard for everyone who uses IRC because I think it is standard for everyone who uses Discord which would be a pretty big difference to me. Also, can you edit/delete your chat messages in IRC like you can in Discord?
IRC is a protocol, there's standards for how it works, there's standards for commands, in general clients follows these standards. Some, like Mibbit (which is shit), don't follow all of them. So it's a bit more client dependent. A better way to think of IRC is more akin to text messages, but you can get a million different texting apps for your phone. Some will embed links to images as images, some won't. There's plenty of other differences in terms of their functionality, but they all send and receive text messages. Discord is much more akin to Skype, it's a proprietary client, not a protocol, it's main intention is for voice, though it supports text, but is shit for a text client.
Embedding gifs, vids, pics, n shit is the default setting on Discord, but not everyone uses it. I turn that shit off, because then I get flooded with constant shit that I don't care about, and it just clutters up my screen. So I only click links when it's something I think I'll actually care about.
Editing/deleting messages will likely be largely moot with the bridge, since the message will have already been sent to IRC and will remain unedited there, nor will you be able to delete it. That said, the server won't keep the message, so it'll only remain on the users clients, and no-one new joining IRC will see it.
I talked a little bit more about the differences between Discord and
IRC here, though it's hardly in depth.
Tesseracts wrote:How would this bot deal with images that are uploaded to Discord?
Ideally it would just send the URL to IRC as a normal message. I'd be surprised if it doesn't do this.