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

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Post by RMPR » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 4:32 PM UTC

dijit wrote: post #15

Every 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…

I totally like this, is it hexchat ? If yes I'd really like to have your theme configs please :)

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

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Post by RMPR » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 4:36 PM UTC

RMPR wrote: post #251

dijit wrote: post #15

Every 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…

I totally like this, is it hexchat ? If yes I'd really like to have your theme configs please :)

That's how it looks like to not read the comments, thanks for posting this.

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

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Post by kkarakk » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 9:37 AM UTC

dijit wrote: post #179

kkarakk wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Perhaps, but the issue you're having is indeed a lack of moderation. And IRC does not lack moderation tools.

It does lack a significant number of people willing to take over somebody else's IRC channel though. There is a lot of cultural inertia around it

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

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Post by LinuxBender » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 3:57 PM UTC

ryanlol wrote: post #245

LinuxBender wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah. Of those, I've used Linode and OVH. Neither ever gave me grief for having IRC, but I also ensured that I never had botnets connecting to me, which is what most of them don't like dealing with. I've never tried 1and1, Hetzner (ive heard good things about them), HostGator or Liquidweb. I am certain that Linode won't give you any grief as long as you make some effort to keep botnets from abusing your service.

>I never had botnets connecting to me, which is what most of them don't like dealing with. It’s the DDoS attacks they didn’t like dealing with, but I suppose that’s one way of describing it.

Yeah both really. The botnets usually act as C&C for tools that create outbound DDoS attacks and exfil user data. They also create jump-off proxy points to mask their location. IRC is a very handy way to control large numbers of attack bots.