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  • (Score: 2) by unitron on Wednesday March 12 2014, @03:59AM

    by unitron (70) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @03:59AM (#15086) Journal

    ...to hope for some kind of IRC client that wasn't so visually difficult to read?

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  • (Score: 1) by Jaruzel on Wednesday March 12 2014, @05:08AM

    by Jaruzel (812) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @05:08AM (#15120) Homepage Journal

    This.

    It's all the bloke that wrote mIRCs fault y'know. He added support for 'color' codes in mIRC which wasn't (still isn't?) part of the RFC spec for IRC, and before you knew it, every channel and its topic had mad rainbow ANSI style l33t speak text that no-one could read. At which point the grown-ups left and moved to moderated forums or private IRCDs etc.

    Recently, I've been scouting around for a modern IRC client with accessibility features (good text-to-speech for example) but haven't had much luck of yet. I think it's mainly to do with IRC being seen as a 'legacy' technology, much like UseNet.

    -Jar

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    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 12 2014, @12:40PM

      by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Wednesday March 12 2014, @12:40PM (#15371) Homepage Journal
      ii (irc it) and even sic from suckless can both just be piped to a speech engine (that can be driven from the commandline).

      Next time I'm on admin duties, I shall be testing out such a setup.
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    • (Score: 1) by NezSez on Thursday March 13 2014, @02:04AM

      by NezSez (961) on Thursday March 13 2014, @02:04AM (#15730) Journal

      IIRC the first use of ascii color codes I saw was in PhoEnix script (or however the caps thing was for it) shortly followed by a plethora of channel bots using them. There was some win32 client that was pretty much the only game in town (I can't remember the name), and then mIRC and Pirc came along.

      I saw your sig. I don't remember any ascii color codes being used for LambdaMoo until the win32 MUD clients came along!

      I don't suppose any of you remember #war by any chance?

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  • (Score: 1) by Marneus68 on Wednesday March 12 2014, @05:17AM

    by Marneus68 (3572) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @05:17AM (#15125)

    Here [wikipedia.org], help yourself. Don't thank me.

    • (Score: 2) by unitron on Thursday March 13 2014, @02:02AM

      by unitron (70) on Thursday March 13 2014, @02:02AM (#15729) Journal

      Actually, I probably won't, because what I mean is taking whatever they use at http://chat.sylnt.us/ [sylnt.us] and making it easier to read.

      I've never really messed with IRC before, so it's all Greek to me, so to speak, so I'm not going to be able to be more specific than that.

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      • (Score: 2) by xlefay on Thursday March 13 2014, @07:24PM

        by xlefay (65) on Thursday March 13 2014, @07:24PM (#16118) Journal

        I'm going to talk to Style as soon as possible to address these concerns, let's see if we can come up with a nice fix ;)