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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?
#32In my experience offline twitch chats are the new irc. It's pretty much as close as you can get to an irc experience like gamesnet or quakenet in the early 00s.
Discords are mostly a waste of time. Barrier to entry is too low/easy/obvious. You just get tons of low quality content and people just speaking in memes with immature high school environment.
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#33• Support channels for various open source projects • Fallback in case the new-fangled webshit breaks for the fifth time a month • Old communities that see no point in moving to said often breaking webshit But none of this has any growth potential, so we'll see for how long I'll keep using it.
I'd rather see IRC usage expand over discord and slack use myself... It'd be nice to maybe see an open-source application and bots that allow for better integration with source control and CI/CD options though. This way it's easier for everyone to interact with a more open base standard.
While discord isn't too bad, it's sometimes hard to find and join the communities you might be looking for. Where as with freenode, and irc in general, discovery is imho easier.
I don't bother with efnet anymore, but do also join irc.synchro.net for a couple channels (also very inactive).
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#34We use IRC at work and it's just as useful and fun as ever, there are IRC clients that consume a few megabytes (hello Slack). SET autolog ON, then keep all your chat history grep-able in your home folder (again, only consuming megabytes - oh hello Slack, again).
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#35Isn't everybody using slack technically also using IRC?
I don't think Slack is based on IRC, no. I believe the best-known IRC-based system (that's not obviously IRC itself) is actually Twitch chat.
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#36We use IRC at work and it's just as useful and fun as ever, there are IRC clients that consume a few megabytes (hello Slack). SET autolog ON, then keep all your chat history grep-able in your home folder (again, only consuming megabytes - oh hello Slack, again).
wee_slack.py (if you can create application tokens) works wonderfully for the same purpose.
Since everyone is really pushing slack it makes my life easier to have it natively in my favourite IRC client.
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#37I use IRC as a last resort since many of the regulars there are rude assholes.
I used IRC a lot for some time a few years back. I avoided the big channels like the ones for javascript and python, and stuck to smaller (< 100 people) channels. People were very nice, responsive and helpful. At one point IRC channel-presence became one of the main criteria by which I chose new technology to work with: it correlated with something good if a community maintained a good IRC presence.
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#38Idling, hoping it'll come back into prominence through some sort of nostalgia wave.
Most of the channels I've been in on freenode are active... efnet and other nets, not so much.
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#39I'm looking forward to when the onboarding process for IRC approaches the usability level of contemporary chat services such as Slack, Rocket Chat, Zulip, etc.
It’s not right for everyone, but I find IRCCloud to have a really low barrier to entry.
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#40Yes, all the time. Multiple channels about software development.