12 comments

  • xnorswap 2 days ago

    I read "We are investing heavily in XChat" and was really confused for a second, having used xchat as my main IRC client back in the day.

    I hadn't realised that it was now long defunct, with its last release in 2010.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XChat_(IRC_client)

    • 0x10ca1h0st 2 days ago

      The nostalgia. I did not much use XChat, but did use custom IRC clients like irssi that were capable of backdooring MSN chat rooms and had the ability to utilize many custom scripts.

  • thot_experiment 2 days ago

    You know, I don't think the scams and spam are because of the design of the "Communities" tool but because those are the only people left using the website.

    • simianwords 2 days ago

      Why do people believe this? This kind of hyperbole is useless and annoying. This is the only social media where you get all important people using it.

      • thot_experiment 2 days ago

        I believe it because it's basically fact? I used to see twitter referenced all the time and I would even participate in the app, now it's kind of a wasteland.

        • fouc 2 days ago

          I see x links frequently shared even in communities that have a quite a few people already on bluesky etc.

      • ThePowerOfFuet 2 days ago

        >This is the only social media where you get all important people using it.

        All important people use X? lmao

  • bathory 2 days ago

    X is shutting down... happy face Communities because of low usage and lots of spam not happy face

  • stevage 2 days ago

    Huh, I'd never heard of them.

  • phendrenad2 2 days ago

    So they're monkey-branching from cloning Reddit to cloning Discord. Wonder if that'll work better for them.