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Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
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Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#142Yeah, I'm still using IRC to connect with folks who have not made the leap to either telegram or discord.
I run irssi inside of a screen session, which I connect to from wherever I am (except mobile).
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#143IRC is my main way to communicate, more than emails or websites like reddit or HN.
I use it for:
* getting help (debian channels, #rust, and #ceph on OFTC; #python on freenode)
* giving help (eg. #mastodon and #limnoria on freenode)
* work (public channel and a private one)
* socializing (some friend groups channels and private chats; and offtopic channels of specific communities are great, eg. #rust-offtopic on OFTC)
In total I'm in about 70 channels
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#144Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1782/
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#145I would be on IRC everyday if I could access it from work.
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#146IRC channels are like anime. There is some good great gems. You have to sift through so much garbage finding them is usually not worth it
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#147I work at a large tech company and we use IRC heavily
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#148Every day, It's become a social network of sorts for geeks, despite the age of the protocol I still find it the least "invasive" and most friendly experience, but that's probably because I spent the time configuring a client that's nice for me. (preview: http://imgs.fyi/img/9ve2.png ) I run a network even, called darkscience and it's available at irc.darkscience.net (TLS only on port 6697) the lobby is #darkscience i…
You're the reason I joined DarkScience sometime back, event wound up paying for IRCCloud which I can't recommend enough for those who want to just have a "slack like" experience. They open source some of their solutions too.
DarkScience is a good community, I'm not very active, I lurk a bit, but these days my social network is all on Discord. I've ran my own independent IRCd before using ngircd and it was great for my small community, but now that they're just all on Discord, it's kind of pointless for me to run a daemon.
I do dream of hosting an IRCd again if Discord ever goes too far. We do talk about reverse engineering and such so we are kind of at their mercy. I think the one thing IRC is missing is a solid client for those of us who like desktop / mobile clients. There's no reason an IRC client can't preview images and render youtube videos like Slack does, at least for those of us who like that kind of thing, I know some IRC users like their terminal clients.
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#149I have a question regarding IRC. I haven't really used it much since 2001-2002 but is there a self-hosted option where i can leave a client running on my server and then access it with my phone and/or browser on a desktop pc when I want to check in? This would be especially helpful with less active channels where it's nice to have a client constantly online to catch chats.
I do this now, with irssi running in a tmux session that I connect to with juicessh and mosh.
This is what I do - my formula is GNU Screen and regular SSH (this old dog can't learn new tricks)
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#150I use IRC for tech / general chat on a local server.
Much better and cleaner experience than Discord, Slack, or other fat alternatives.