RIP Mibbit

aurora

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i'm a bit late to this one, but i received some truly heartbreaking news yesterday morning:

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for most people, mibbit was their first client before moving onto a dedicated executable application; for some, it was their only client, and they stuck with mibbit until we all had to haul ourselves over to skype. i'll never forget the old days where you'd be bullied for having a mibbit vhost and end up getting coerced into downloading another client. "oh my fucking god another mibbit user. <redacted> yourself. download an actual client". truly, mibbit was one of the IRC clients of all time and an integral part of smogon culture. rip to a real one
 
Less memey post, rest in piece to mibbit, it was a piece of shit but it was such an integral part of my early teenage days on this site (I met Aurora because the two of us were regulars on #shinx and #Snowflakes back in the day)

Moments there such as when bmelts liveplayed Pokemon BW1 for the first time and called Bianca a bitch for predictably destroying his bedroom, and the time Zarel decided it was a good idea to publicly post his ajoin list (for the children reading this, this is the equivalent of posting every discord server you're in) will always be precious memories of my youth :psycry:
 
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I shared this earlier among the Circus mafia olds but Mibbit was integral to my early OC mafia experiences. Many memories were made discussing games and planning actions. It will be missed.
 
Big rip to Mibbit. Using MIRC felt overwhelming to my teenaged brain and it provided a really easy way to connect. Such a big cudgel for accessibility back in the day.

Also, cannot believe how long IRC lasted on this website looking back. It took until discord hit for us all to finally move out. Glad I was able to mostly hold up on MIRC until the awful Skype era was almost over.
 
Mibbit was already well and truly a stone tablet by the time I ever had need for it, but when I did happen upon the rare community that hadn't converted to Skype or Discord, Mibbit made connecting to their IRC network as smooth as possible. I will miss it terribly.
 
aurora said:
i'm a bit late to this one, but i received some truly heartbreaking news yesterday morning:

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for most people, mibbit was their first client before moving onto a dedicated executable application; for some, it was their only client, and they stuck with mibbit until we all had to haul ourselves over to skype. i'll never forget the old days where you'd be bullied for having a mibbit vhost and end up getting coerced into downloading another client. "oh my fucking god another mibbit user. <redacted> yourself. download an actual client". truly, mibbit was one of the IRC clients of all time and an integral part of smogon culture. rip to a real one
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Mibbit's dead but you can still use the client its like pokemon netbattle dying....
 
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