• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I wonder if multiple IRC clients all agreed at the same time to extend the protocol by rendering markdown in the messages if that would help.

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      7 months ago

      There’s a “new” draft for version 3 being worked on but to be honest they are not addressing in my opinion the right features. Yay, we are going to get unicode nicknames? I think people are fine with what is there now. But not being able to paste code or images, now that’s a real hindrance.

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        7 months ago

        Convos.chat has both those features, via an built in image server and pastebin service. In addition it renders Markdown just fine.

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            7 months ago

            Exactly. If you have a simple protocol, but then everyone layers a bunch of proprietary extensions on, is it really a simple protocol anymore? Or is it just a bunch of chat clients that only kind of talk to each other anymore?