irc in the age of social media

IRC in the age of Social media

IRC is an old fashioned chat system

Its a complicated setup

Its ugly....

Social media...

Thats where we live now!

Its attractive

But....

Facts -

• "Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information—in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names—to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found." - The Wall Street Journal.

Why is the 'current generation' still addicted to Social media?

Unaware of IRCs....the better communication platform!

Scrollback....trying to build the next generation IRC

• Scrollback is a free and open source platform that hosts online discussions for communities.

• It is the bridge between conventional IRCs and the modern day's chat platforms with better UIs.

What are we trying to do different?

• Integrating IRC with chatrooms.

• Better UI for users.

• Using NLP (AI) to group messages together, to form more meaningful

conversations.

• Making discussions more search optimized.

• Linking twitter hastags and handles to a room, for logging all thats

trending about the topic on the social media.

Let the 'current generation' also have the safer, better communication platform...

Thank you

About the speaker:

Priyanka Nag

Twitter - @priynag

priyanka@scrollback.io