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1 year agoNo idea where they’re coming from, but people have been exchanging files on IRC files for year, why stop now? The obscurity of it is probably the only reason it’s still around, it will never get enough attention for traffic to overload the servers, and nobody will bother trying to hit them with lawsuits.
Firefox a few years ago would kill my Mac battery in a couple hours, now it’s as good as safari for energy management. No reason not to use it as a daily driver now.