IRCs are older than internet, but they are dying now. The 'all beautiful' text chat services like Facebook chats etc are replacing the ugly looking IRCs. What can be done to save IRCs?

1. IRC in the age of Social media

2. IRC is an old fashioned chat system

3. Its a complicated setup

4. Its ugly....

5. Social media...

6. Thats where we live now!

7. Its attractive

8. But....

9. 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.

10. Why is the 'current generation'
still addicted to Social media?
Unaware of IRCs....the better communication platform!

11. 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.

12. 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.

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

14. About the speaker:
Priyanka Nag
Twitter - @priynag
priyanka@scrollback.io