Just saw an IRC client implementing tiling chats exactly like a tiling WM would and I want to scream on the top of my lungs.
Worst part is I can't just tell people to not reimplement the features BeOS shipped in its window manager over 20 years ago in every single application, all with different shortcuts and behaviours, because they'll go "well if you don't like it don't use it :)" while making it hard to open multiple windows of the app or split out the chats list into its own window.
mid_kid
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2026-04-16 19:46:31 UTC
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