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

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Post by jamesbiv »

Although I don't actively lurk on IRC, I do use it from time to time, especially for support for programming or open source projects, as Freenode seems to be the place to go these days.

I grew up using it and found it a great tool for people to connect and even contribute to projects or just programming in general. I feel even to this day, the ambiance created by IRC "back in the day" with all its contrived features such as server linking and splits, channel ops, bots, and opers still haven't been captured by any of the social media giants even today.

The best things I found about IRC were, TCL scripts, Eggrop bots, and all of the Ascii art that people would use.

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

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Post by NickBusey »

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.

What Twitch chat rooms are you in?

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

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Post by na85 »

non-entity wrote: post #53
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.

What's missing for me is cross-device sync of scroll back logs, push notifications on @mention even if you're not connected, and proper user accounting to handle abuse.

I want to be able to leave my desktop at home and pick up where I left off on my phone (with out getting disconnected when I change cell towers) and not miss anything

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

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Post by bshipp »

I 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.

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

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Post by kingludite »

dmos62 wrote: post #37
wayneftw wrote: post #17

I 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.

Same here, if the newfangled hipster stuff doesn't have an irc channel it doesn't have enough of those really old people who again and again watched their stuff crumble in their hands for reasons they were sure were not going to happen. Just picture them sitting there silently raging at the invasive species that are colorful unicode smiles looking back at them from what use to be their purist text interface. How can you not love a place like that?

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

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Post by na85 »

bshipp wrote: post #75

I 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.

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

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Post by detaro »

bshipp wrote: post #75

I 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.

https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

https://quassel-irc.org/ has a server component you connect to with clients (for desktop and Android, not sure about state of things on iOS), and https://github.com/magne4000/quassel-webserver if you need a web interface.

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

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Post by bshipp »

na85 wrote: post #78
bshipp wrote: post #75

I 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.

That sounds like a simple, clever solution. Thanks!
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