: If you'd like to use an even older, better protocol, which supported chat,
: file sharing, and message boards long before Hotline was ever dreamt of,
: and which has decent, polished clients, #alephone on irc.freenode.net
: still exists.
: I must confess the ops there can be a bit testy, but it's actually hard to
: earn a real ban. You might get kicked for long monologues of text speak
: "r u srs" or for saying "Fo shizzle" or using figlet,
: but you won't be banned unless you make a big fuss.
It seems that most of the ops have 4GOTTEN, so #alephone should be safe now. I have to ask what makes hotline better than IRC though. Is there a good reason for setting this up?
