Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?

only to download movies with XDCC :-)

nah on reddit, there is active moderation and users self regulate and you don't see real scum and villainy unless you sort by controversial(or seek out a subreddit that sucks)

in any irc it's constant and due to the inertia of users, even if you come back a month later the same user will probably come back and say the same dumb stuff to you instead of you finding someone new to talk to

Yes - anytime I need to talk to the amazing stripe support crew! :)

I started using IRC around age, I dunno, 10-12 (30s now), lots of efnet then freenode, at one point I was an ircop until our childish antics got our server desynced. I don't use it anymore. Between the insular cliques and the fact that I can look up archives of 20-25 year old messages I wrote on there because you never know who or where someone is writing logs really turned me off as I got older. I'm in a few community slacks and discords nowadays but I'm not a frequent user there either.

I dealt with a lot of user drama as an ircop on a large network. I really started to turn negative toward it (especially efnet/dalnet) when I started noticing that toxic users would basically create profiles of other users to use for trolling, blackmail or whatever else was on their imagination at the time.

You can think you're fairly anonymous but when you start having the casual conversations that IRC can lead to and a lurker is logging each users text into separate buckets they'll eventually be able to infer quite a bit about you over the 5+ years you're around casually chatting.

I'm just not comfortable entering rooms that have 50 active users and 900 lurkers anymore. This is probably a fairly paranoid outtake since I've seen these things happen, but they do or have happened and it really wasn't that infrequent back then (early 2ks).

I extracted a few color codes and this looks alright.

XFC4-Terminal Config

  ColorPalette=rgb(0,0,0);rgb(234,57,145);rgb(85,183,8);rgb(192,132,1);rgb(66,158,224);rgb(157,101,214);rgb(7,139,139);rgb(208,208,208);rgb(128,128,128);rgb(255,95,175);rgb(175,215,0);rgb(255,175,0);rgb(143,180,255);rgb(175,135,215);rgb(0,175,175);rgb(255,255,255)

RGB

  0,0,0
  234,57,145
  85,183,8
  192,132,1
  66,158,224
  157,101,214
  7,139,139
  208,208,208
  128,128,128
  255,95,175
  175,215,0
  255,175,0
  143,180,255
  175,135,215
  0,175,175
  255,255,255

Hex Variant:

  #000000
  #EA3991
  #55B708
  #C08401
  #429EE0
  #9D65D6
  #078B8B
  #D0D0D0
  #808080
  #FF5FAF
  #AFD700
  #FFAF00
  #8FB4FF
  #AF87D7
  #00AFAF
  #FFFFFF