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[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's still text only. When I hear text only I already assume it supports all you mentioned.

Text is not ASCII only :)

Beyond text only comes voice calls, video calls and screen share, which are paramount for my discord use case. Me and my friends like to game while sharing our screens, so I game in my main monitor and have a matrix of screens on the second. It creates a LAN party feeling and it's important to maintain connection after some moved out of town.

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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Text is not ASCII only :)

If you want to be technical, IRC supports Unicode so it's just not ASCII only. Convos is also supposed to support voice chats.

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[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago*

That's what I meant tho, you were under the assumption that the author thought that IRC meant text only, and said that IRC supports rich text with images and links and the like. And my point is that that's still text, that text isn't ASCII only, technically.

In any case, I did look the video support that Convos offers, and it seems like an external integration with jitsi (camera button opens a jitsi conference externally and shares the link in chat). Better than nothing for sure, yer subpar for the use case we are looking for.

Thanks for the suggestion though!

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