Where did it all go wrong for chat systems?

Where did it all go wrong for chat systems?
They all look like they are made for blind people with giant buttons, giant bubbles, etc.

What happened to the good old minimal IRC like views?

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WHY IS EVERY PROFILE PIC A CIRCLE
WHH IS THE LEFT PANEL ALWAYS PEOPLE
AND WHY IS IT ALL TRASH

hey i got that webcam. works quite well for windows hello. don't use it for anything else.

i think discord looks pretty good uwu

Because you have degenerate taste. There is nothing good about Discord.

What's uwu? How do you even spell that?

You just answered your own question. Most normal people don't care about computers nor do they think about them in a logical way. What they want in computers IS big buttons that are never moved to another place thanks to an update or anything. They treat using computers as if they were some sort of memorized task instead of something dynamic.

It all went downhill when we began using messaging services over messaging protocols.

But user, that's botnet!

smarthphones happened

this is why i use suckless' sic

Why would you need a webcam like that unless you're a vlogger or a prostitute?

Blame mobile users.

>black window background
>white titlebar

>What happened to the good old minimal IRC like views?
IRC is still alive and well.

Baitmeister #50236

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Discord is literally the worst one

Wtf is even irc-like view? CLI? MIRC?

I was linked to this thread via IRC.

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I think we can all agree the best irc client is irssi

that's a funny way to spell "weechat"

When did we get invaded by Chinese government shills?

Since when would the Chinese shill a German IRC client?

Since after I was dropped as a child, probably. WeChat is the one I was thinking of.

LINE doesn't have this problem.

This for literally everything wrong with the web

It's not actually fair to compare a chat application to a messaging protocol like IRC you can use several different clients for IRC and I bet someone has made a horrible terrible mistake of an application for it that has a "modern" interface. If you use messaging protocols properly you can choose what application suits your taste and many even have terminal applications that work fine.

>IRC
Because that was hipster trash that didn't appeal to the majority and they wanted something far more userfriendly and less intimidating. So we are where we are.

Mobile devices, more specifically tablets.
I dislike the push for big menus and huge buttons.

Truer words have never been spoken on Jow Forums

they make absolutely no improvements over irc AND they are all proprietary solutions that cant be trusted

that is where it all went wrong

Well op have you used irc on 4k without zoom fucking impossible

>Where did it all go wrong for chat systems?
the IRC community was fucking retarded and didn't do anything to encourage new users to join, such as making/publicizing easy to use software/wrappers for IRC
That "sekrit klub" mentality directly led to nonfree services filling the void

>he fell for the 24" 4k monitor meme.

Also IRC clients can scale text if you're that blind.