It is an interesting decision to finish the project like this.
I would, in their place, use the chance to free the code into a more permissive license such as MIT, CC0 or the like, but in any event the author is already generous enough to offer it as copyleft; kudos to them.
Discord uses 0% CPU (4770k) and 85mb ram on my pc currently, while being in an active call. What would it take for it to no longer be "too bloated" to have idling in the background?
I've been happily using irssi for several years now, but I know a lot of people who used HexChat, and I used it in the past, along with XChat before it. IRC is pretty simple, so I imagine HexChat will keep working fine for years to come. It may just miss out on some IRCv3 features, and in the worst case some vulnerabilities could go unfixed.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 46.3 ms ] threadIt is an interesting decision to finish the project like this.
I would, in their place, use the chance to free the code into a more permissive license such as MIT, CC0 or the like, but in any event the author is already generous enough to offer it as copyleft; kudos to them.
It would require every contributors' permission, as (likely) there was no contribution agreement to transfer ownership.
Feels like discord killed off IRC for good. Any reason I should switch to an alternative client for the yearly IRC log-on?
Maybe I can find my ancient mIRC client lying around...