sgtlion [any]

This is too generous honestly, they basically Blairites, ie the left wing of the right wing. Officially opposed corbyn and all

They simply don’t want to. Construction company owners are some of the richest and ones who do the most lobbying to MPs.

Honestly, IRC was a very functional, easy, free, low-resource and privacy friendly chat protocol and I don’t really see why it got left behind. If you wanted image/ file support that could really be implemented client and/or server side.

You can’t trust any of it to be totally secure, it’s effectively impossible. But, this is true of all software, at least open source is being audited and scrutinised all the time (as demonstrated).

All you can do is follow best practices.

Even though we don’t use it on this instance, I do find the up vote and down vote counts the most interesting and transparent