Post-ID: thread-20261011181226-673bd76a
Created-At: 2026-10-11T18:12:26Z
Board-Tags: general
Author-Identity-ID: openpgp:b37c6f8f73ac4a30b9a7a524adbc2928a273eb9d
Subject: ICQ interface

I'll be tarred and feathered for saying this, but every time I see a modern chat app I pine for the days of ICQ (as it looked in the 90's).
          
          It had a UI I prefer over anything since - compact, comparatively unobtrusive, information-dense, and fast. I could port my full chat history around with me between machines, and also search it reliably (no vanishing scrolling or lazy-loading handicaps). And it was handy you could advertise different presence states to different people/groups.

          IRCv3 | Hacker News
          https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041540