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bash.org is gone (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by hal_5700X@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

It was a collection of silly quotes from IRC channels everywhere, many of which dated back to the 90s. It was rarely ever updated in the 2010s, but now, the URL no longer resolves.

Last capture was July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230601000000*/bash.org

EDIT Someone archived all the quotes on the Internet Archive.

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[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 204 points 11 months ago

IRC was so much better than Discord. People are stupid.

[-] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 67 points 11 months ago

I've lost a lot of my rose tint for discord, right around the arbitration clause thing, but I can't deny that it's convenient. Chat, streaming to friends, popping up a new server for whatever project or group, VC for playing games together. There's platforms that do all of these things better, but few that do all of them decently well.

Of course, it's a privacy nightmare and I stick to IRC for anything I wouldn't feel comfortable having linked to my identity, but I wouldn't call people stupid for using it.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 64 points 11 months ago

Mostly I think its fine for all that.

But there's a special circle of hell for projects that rely on it for "documentation".

I get the temptation, I really do. But once you're taking money or have more than a couple people involved and semi-organized you really need at least a small wiki/git-hub landing page with the basics.

I know documentation is a separate skillset and a lot of work in its own right but projects can also stagnate and die because there isn't any.

[-] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Oh 1000% agree, having a discord for support is nice and all, but using it as a crutch in place of good documentation is a sin worthy of eternal damnation.

[-] laurelraven 5 points 11 months ago

Heck, even support is a bit of a pain since projects also like to use it as their issue tracker and want you to search for your issue before posting (which it's awful for). GitHub is free or at least cheap depending on what you need and is way more searchable, as well as giving a place for wiki and a basic website

Direct chat support, discord is fine, but beyond that, please use something actually designed for it

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

How is Discord a privacy nightmare?

[-] Chobbes@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Or maybe… How is discord any worse of a privacy nightmare than IRC? I love me some IRC, but it ain’t exactly a bastion of secrecy.

[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 24 points 11 months ago

IRC clients don't have loads of telemetry like Discord does. And IRC is a protocol instead of a platform, so there isn't a single set of servers hosting and logging ALL conversations.

[-] Chobbes@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That’s fair, but IRC also tends to leak information about users to everybody. They’re maybe bad in slightly different ways, but frankly if you care about privacy that much you probably shouldn’t use either, at least not with additional protections.

[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 12 points 11 months ago

IRC doesn't even see that much info about each user to begin with, especially compared to Discord, and if you're talking about public IPs - hiding them from other users is now a common thing on servers.

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[-] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 38 points 11 months ago

IRC is only text chat, Discord does a ton of other things on top.

Personally I've been on the internet for the last.. 27 years or so? I've used ICQ, Teamspeak, Skype, IRC, Mumble, Discord, Teams, .. (Probably forgot a few).

I never really liked IRC, yes, it's private servers which is nice, yes you can be relatively anonymous, but the channels were always a mess. Either too many people spamming so you can't follow a single conversation, or for most channels you had 40 people idling and never responding, so it felt like a ghost town.

Just in my personal experience Discord works a lot better and is far more convenient. But yeah, not much privacy there obviously (though everything you said in IRC was often saved away by a bot, so either way whatever you said was out there).

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

CashewNut slaps Vlyn around a bit with a large trout

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 24 points 11 months ago

Sure, but when everybody's Discord content vanishes behind a paywall, or makes you watch a 2 minute advert to see a Wiki, what are you going to do?

Already I can't just browse the content on a Discord community without "joining" and all that bollocks.

Like I'm sure Discord is better than IRC, but it's not better than a collection of open standards so anyone can run a server.

[-] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago

I've never seen someone host a wiki on Discord.. that's just stupid.

Having to join a server before you see its content is a good thing though. It's a privacy feature and also anti-spam / anti-bots (Before you see anything you often have to agree to the server rules).

Using Discord for information storage is obviously a bad idea. But for text chat including channels, voice chat and so on it's fantastic. Most games usually have an extra website with a wiki for information.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 25 points 11 months ago

Having to join a server before you see its content is a good thing though.

Joining to browse is in no way a good thing. Join to speak, yes. Join to read, no.

[-] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

I think your view of servers here is wrong. They are literally named communities, as in private spaces. You get access if you're part of that community, otherwise you don't.

Discord servers are not public websites or a wiki anyone can access, they are not supposed to be.

IRC is a tiny bit more open, but even there you need to join a channel to read it and you can get kicked out. For reading the logs a bot saved away you might need an account too (but that's up to the server admin or whoever is hosting that content).

[-] subwoofer@lemmy.gockandgum.party 12 points 11 months ago

Issue with what you are saying is that I have seen a crap ton of software ( Foss software too ) using discord forums / discord I'm general as their "knowledge base" making it quite hard to find solutions for problems or ask questions, where in the past you'd be using a forum for.

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[-] citizen@normalcity.life 14 points 11 months ago

Just in my personal experience Discord works a lot better and is far more convenient

Your personal experience is biased as fuck because having to go through phone verification or downloading a sketchy proprietary client is in no way far more convenient than firing up irc

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

/me slaps Vlym about with a large trout.

[-] FishFace@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Either too many people spamming so you can’t follow a single conversation, or for most channels you had 40 people idling and never responding, so it felt like a ghost town.

How is this different to Discord? You have huge, medium and small channels in both.

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[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 37 points 11 months ago

It's wild how a good deal of decentralization and FOSS focused communities insist on having Discord be their primary center for community. Worst one is privacy focused communities...

I can't say that bridging them to matrix was a foolproof endeavor though

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 30 points 11 months ago

Amen. Guess it's the curse of the unknowing youth. They grow up with this bullcrap. I hate discord so much. "oh buy nitro, have stupid stickers!" ugh.

I really really really miss IRC. What was wrong with it? Why did it die? Did we all die?

[-] Tja@programming.dev 15 points 11 months ago

It is alive and well, never died. Many project still use it for communication, support...

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

I know, there're even gopher, Finger and BBSs still around. But being around isn't really the same as alive. Except technically.

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 22 points 11 months ago

Except the lack of a decent mobile client that doesn't require you to self-host something to receive all messages

[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 16 points 11 months ago

Better how? I can't message people when they're offline, everything is completely boring text, no images, it's not clear how I can easily setup my own server, everything feels archaic.

I tried using it before Discord was even a thing, and I already thought it quite sucked. If you think it's great, then good on you for knowing everything inside and out, but the discoverability with any IRC client tends to be in the negatives. It feels awful to use.

[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

everything is completely boring text, no images

You literally just listed some of the reasons IRC is better. That said, I don't see any reason an IRC client couldn't be made to support images, with the understanding that it would have to be done in a way that falls back to posting it as a link for people using text-only clients, but that shouldn't be too difficult.

can't message people when they're offline,

This functionality can be enabled on IRC servers or on a per-channel basis using bots.

it's not clear how I can easily setup my own server.

Again an advantage of IRC. Not every group of 2 people need their own server. And a simple 2 second Google search (or learning your IRC client) will show you how to create your own channel in seconds.

the discoverability with any IRC client tends to be in the negatives.

That really depends on the client. There are (or at least used to be) plenty of user-friendly IRC clients. How many alternate clients can I use with Discord?

And heaven forbid someone should have to think for more than 3 seconds when learning something new to them.

I swear I sometimes think that once all of us Gen-Xers are gone, there won't be anyone left who actually understands how the Internet or the technology that runs on it actually works, as prophesied by Idiocracy.

[-] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

boring text, no images

Inb4 using an image to compliment no images

[-] Floshie 14 points 11 months ago

It was better before, now non tech savy people prefer something I don't like, therefore they are stupid.

[-] nixcamic@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

No it's not cause it's easy to use, it's cause Discord is controlled by a single company with various features behind paywalls and only one functional client app.

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[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago
[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

Not centralised for a start. Think of it like 'federated Discord'.

[-] russjr08@bitforged.space 24 points 11 months ago

Also, IRC doesn't constantly try to throw "upgrades" (Nitro) in your face every single moment that it gets.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have used both, aside from the monetisation (Nitro), Discord (and Slack) has a lot more functionality. Not sure it's 'correct' to say that people are stupid because they prefer a 21st century version of IRC.

[-] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Matrix stack would be the 21st century equivalent. Discord is just another Skype - entirely a proprietary product that you don't operate yourself. Fine for corporate use where people don't care about longevity because it's not their problem or interest, but trash for everything else.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I just searched for "Matrix stack" but I'm none-the-wiser, what is it?

Right, you don't run the thing yourself at a program level, but you can create and moderate channels as you wish, which is what most people want. Sounds like the Windows v Linux argument, just because a lot of people prefer something doesn't mean we have to shit on it. Discord seems to work well with lots of integration (including on consoles) and fulfils its purpose pretty well from what I can tell.

trash for everything else

How?

[-] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's an entirely closed source, proprietary codebase, run by a for-profit company where you have little control over anything. These corporations don't care about actual users and they will leave you high and dry. There is a reason people still use IRC - it's open, easy to connect to and has been around for literal decades. Remember CompuServe? AOL? AIM? ICQ? Google Chat shutting it's doors to xmpp? If so, you understand the pattern. It's about walled gardens and blocking interoperability. The industry doesn't need more of that. We are chatting on an open source link aggregation site because bean counters at Reddit decided to shut off APIs to existing apps arbitrarily.

The matrix stack solves most of those problems by providing an open source codebase and protocol, easy to connect to solution that is akin to Slack. I am fortunate enough to not have to use discord much beyond checking on a class schedule and downloading some sheet music, so I will never be a discord power user. Maybe some there is crazy awesome feature that discord provides that no open source platform does, but I have some serious doubts about that.

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[-] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Any guides on how to get started on IRC? I gave it a try a couple months ago but couldn't find any good communities.

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