alt Hacker NewsTimes like this make me miss the IRC days, I was just able to reproduce a bug in an semi-open-source project, and Discord went down right in the middle of me sending my findings. Now there's nothing I can do about it. I can only wait.
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jstummbillig • yesterday at 9:23 PM
I don't exactly know what you are comparing. No popular IRC network came anywhere near what we would find acceptable in terms of reliability today. It was an absolutely (wonderful) wildfire.
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aroman • yesterday at 8:30 PM
I mean, when freenode would go down it was more or less the same thing, no?
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wetpaws • yesterday at 9:31 PM
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I feel like I have different memories about the instability of Internet services in the past than some people do.
Common IRC servers were not without problems. I think it was just more common to shrug it off and do something else until the problems went away.