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Jarkko Oikarinen wrote Internet Relay Chat (IRC) at the Department of Information Processing Science of the University of Oulu, in Finland, 30 years ago. Even today, people are still using IRC and it is an essential communication tool for many distributed teams.
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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Turned Thirty Last Week
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Cheer Up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 25 2018, @09:54PM (4 children)
Tried to make a Discord account over a VPN and they asked for a phone number. It's probably the same shit sandwich for Tor users.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 25 2018, @10:25PM (1 child)
It's proprietary, what did you expect?!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 25 2018, @10:30PM
The proprietary of 10 years ago
(Score: 3, Informative) by Pino P on Sunday August 26 2018, @12:15PM (1 child)
If your IP address or address prefix has had a history of abuse, and you have no phone or only a landline, this post on reddit [reddit.com] suggests contacting a human at support@ to arrange other means of verifying that you are human.
IRC is often little different depending on the server operator. You can't register on Freenode's NickServ through some privacy tools because of past abuse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @12:32PM
I did send a message at the time, politely, and got back some form of a "no". They may not have liked Proton Mail. I can't think of any other form of verification hoop that I would want to jump through. They already made their stance clear. They want to block or track bots and trolls, so privacy doesn't exist on Discord.