Discourse Machine (sm) @rachel@vulpine.club

i wonder what portion of the fediverse is otherkin...

This isn't going to be a discord beatdown because IRC is superior post.

I want to instead talk about a problem that keeps really affecting me that i ONLY have with HTTP based protocols and websocket streaming.

I do actually use discord, quite a lot, for me it's replaced my TS3 and mumble servers with something that sounds better for general chitchat.

I have a bot, it relays my IRC channels with my discord guilds [like hell am i going to call them servers, we're gonna use the API name], It is based on discord's nodejs API because at the time it was one of the only choices for officially vetted APIs. It rarely falls off of IRC but it often falls off of discord.

The reason is that the websocket things are not really designed for extremely long connections it seems, I'm not the only person in my area that seems to have this problem either...

bots just... don't seem to stay connected.

I think the solution will be easy, just having it watch and reconnect... but the thing is, while reconnection is needed, it shouldn't be needed to keep a session alive.

With protocols like IRC, as long as you and the server can talk properly, your client is responding with the right responses... it won't die or time out.

HTTP streaming protocols seem to have this happen a lot, I /THINK/ its because of whatever frontend server [due to how these things often work] is proxying to the websocket capable app. I've seen it time and time again.


Tell me, why is using HTTP so "good" when you have problems like this? ones that I didn't have until HTTP based protocols because mainstream?

I don't really care if the answer isn't IRC, so long as the answer IS something that is better. and it has to be objectively better under the hood too because if it isn't, when you start doing more interesting things, the prettyness of the UX just disappears away.

The 90s, the peak of technological innovation... on the cassette tape.

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what do you mean "the furries have come to mastodon" i think you have it quite backwards

Hey everyone look, the normies have finally come and joined us~

Protip: Adobo w/ cumin is basically one of the best seasonings ever made

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