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I use bitlbee to gate all of my IM networks to a single IRC channel which I then point X-Chat at. I also ocassionaly jump onto freenode to get real time support for various open source packages.
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I mostly idle on local user groups and language/framework-specific channels. I rarely say anything, but just keeping an eye on the conversations has taught me a lot of stuff I wouldn't have known otherwise.
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I use an IRC bouncer to stay logged in to the IRC servers. I connect to the bouncer, which replays anything I missed on the IRC server while I'm not logged in to the bouncer.
Can you share the name of the bouncer? Sounds like nice functionality...
I've also heard of Bip (http://bip.t1r.net/), but I've never used it.
We have other internal invite-only channels for coordinating with external developers on internal projects. We also have github spamming a channel now whenever changes to a repo that a lot of people are coordinating on get pushed.
The #redis channel saved our asses at least once when Pieter Noordhuis wrote a script to help us with a particular issue we were having. :) And the #facebook channel has been a useful resource as well.
I was wondering if anyone here uses IRCcat: http://www.metabrew.com/article/how-we-use-irc-at-lastfm I know flickr also uses it and it seems like it would be insanely useful to have notifications about all kinds of things going into various channels. I know flickr also uses it: http://velocityconference.blip.tv/file/2284377/
Haven't spent much time working on it but so far the bot gets kicked for flooding immediately. May only be a problem because we're using freenode for testing. Long term want to run our own IRC server, but for testing it was easier to just use freenode...
IRC is an indispensable part of my work. The team I'm on uses a private server for team discussions (works great when someone is working remotely), and we also are in a few public channels on freenode. On freenode, I'm in #openstack to talk about cloud object storage infrastructure, #eventlet to learn more about it, and #cloudfiles for Rackspace product-specific questions. #openstack has been pretty active in the las…
I use XChat on Ubuntu, and it is perfect for my limited usage.
People with tiling window managers seem to IRC a lot.
Any good resources out there for climbing the learning curve to journeyman IRCer?