Link to original post: [drupal=3806]Changing brawl chatrooms for the better - IRC[/drupal]
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Video/picture sharing
The #1 ignorant reason for why people say they prefer XAT to IRC could not possibly be more wrong.
Let’s get the easy thing out of the way first, picture sharing. IRC and XAT are the same, if someone links a picture, you simply click that link to open the picture. With XAT, you must click the link, click a confirmation button before the picture uploads beneath a banner and when you return to the chat, must close that confirmation window. With IRC, you click the image, and exactly the same as XAT, it opens it up in a new window. And that’s it, no warnings and banners, just an incredibly quick and easy method to share pictures. IRC is superior in every aspect here.
Now for sharing videos; people prefer XAT because of the ability to broadcast embedded videos to watch them together in the same chat, however most people are unaware that IRC is the exact same. There are clients out there which allow anyone to click a video and it will embed it into the window just like XAT. It’s amazing how people don’t actually know that broadcasting videos in IRC works the exact same as XAT. But why IRC is once again better here, is because of the ability to watch whatever you want at any time. In XAT if someone broadcasts a video but you want to watch something else, too bad. You have to hide the chat window and watch it on Youtube or something. In IRC, anyone can embed any video they want at any time. Within the same channel, 2 people could be watching a brawl match and discussing it, 2 could be having a movie night and 2 could be watching a documentary, all within the same chat window. It is superior to XAT in all aspects regarding sharing media.
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