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

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Post by Merem »

verylittlemeat wrote: post #32

In 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.

Twitch chat is IRC, so you can just join with a dedicated or web client irc.twitch.tv and chat away (OAuth token is required). Most of the offline chatters that I know use a client.

Apart from that I'm on several channels on Rizon and synIRC.

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

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Post by Alynalore »

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…

That looks quite nice! If you're using irssi would you be willing to share your colors / setup?

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

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Post by non-entity »

na85 wrote: post #49

I really enjoy using IRC but it badly needs an update to work on phones without requiring the user to have a sign up for a 3rd party service (irc cloud, shell providers to run a bnc). IRCv3 is out there but it seems to me to be simultaneously overengineered and underfeatured. I don't think they're focusing their efforts into the right areas to make IRC relevant again.

I used IRC for a while, but it logged me out one day, and I haveno idea what email I used to create my account, so I haven't been able to log back in. Recently I've been used a beta client on android called Revolution IRC which is fine for basic usage, however as I've expressed elsewhere in this thread, I've been wanting to develop an IRC client based on the Discord UI, which I'm familiar with.

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

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Post by scaryclam »

tracker1 wrote: post #26

FreeNode seems to have some really active channels... outside of that, all I see on the servers I connect to now and then are a lot of lurkers. The cool thing is, in general when I've exhausted my options, a lot of people deeply involved in various projects do tend to hang out in freenode's channels. I don't keep hexchat open all the time, just fallen out of habit, but I'll be in ##javascript and #csharp mostly, late…

Slightly off topic, but did you know you can use SASL to auto identify with NickServ on Freenode?

Edit: typo

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

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Post by croon »

Clocking in at 23 years on IRC, with likely very few days of missing coverage.

Mostly channels that started with mutual interest (gaming, music, movies, programming) and almost exclusively evolved into personal groupings rather than the initial interest.

I can grep things I remember talking about fairly quickly. And check back on what was going on at a certain point in my life (irclogs/[year]/[net]/#*.[date].log).

The same can't be said for Slack, Messenger, etc. And it's all quite tiny gzipped.

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

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Post by lkramer »

I'm in a couple of tiny communities on IRC. There seems to be no growth potential, and when I've suggested switching to IRC in a work setting people look at me as if I'm mad, and starts hugging their webbased monstrocities filled with emojis and memory leaks, but I think I will always prefer IRC.

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

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Post by minxomat »

lkramer wrote: post #56

I'm in a couple of tiny communities on IRC. There seems to be no growth potential, and when I've suggested switching to IRC in a work setting people look at me as if I'm mad, and starts hugging their webbased monstrocities filled with emojis and memory leaks, but I think I will always prefer IRC.

Even terminal based weechat is perfectly capable of rendering emojis.
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