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There's about 190* of us HN'ers in the #startups channel right now. http://ircstartups.pbworks.com/ *Maybe we're not all HN'ers, but darn close.
how many are active? IRC is usually full of many decent sized rooms with limited chat and mostly inactive users
This is especially good when there's only a few people talking, as fewer people => more interesting conversations (usually).
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how many are active? IRC is usually full of many decent sized rooms with limited chat and mostly inactive users
This is a feature . Most of the people on an IRC channel are lurkers. And the channels are very quiet so that people can hear you when you do speak. Believe me, I wish they were quieter , because even as they are they tend to be too distracting for me to lurk there while working. It does seem creepy. Our company's salespeople laugh at the programmers because we really love to gather in one physical room, then sit sil…
I'd like to change the channel for internal chat and use #disqus for public use though.
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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 use IRC all day long. Every day. Freenode. If you're into perl, they have an IRC server of their own. I have been working remotely for the past year or so and we use it to keep the team in touch with one another.
IRC network actually - irc.perl.org is 6 servers, four of them on Shadowcat's hardware, the others donated by individual members of the perl community.
Whatever OSS projects you use have channels on freenode. Keep those open all day and lurk, you'll be amazed how much you learn from osmosis. If someone comes by with an easy question, answer it and you'll have social karma to get help from others when you need it.
I much prefer this to posting a question on a forum/stackoverflow etc type site. Probably my own impatience, but I want an answer now . IRC is actually growing a load. It's pretty widely used. The fun thing is, I don't think anyone really realizes it, and it's still considered 'old stuff' by many. If you look at the numbers, twitter usage is about the same as one of the tiny IRC networks in terms of volume of message…
imho great deal of IRC's greatness comes from irssi, an awesome client for it. It has a learning curve though, especially if you are not familiar with screen (or tmux). While you can run it locally, it really shines when you run it in a server inside a screen session, connected via ssh. Each phone I have had in the past 5 years has had a ssh client available, so I could just attach to my session and have the exactly…
which IRC server do you guys use ? I have long wanted to set up an private IRC server for our workplace, but got lost in the zillions of complicated IRC server setups. Do you use it over VPN .... or have you set it up to use some kind of authentication ? It would be great if you could help.
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This is a feature . Most of the people on an IRC channel are lurkers. And the channels are very quiet so that people can hear you when you do speak. Believe me, I wish they were quieter , because even as they are they tend to be too distracting for me to lurk there while working. It does seem creepy. Our company's salespeople laugh at the programmers because we really love to gather in one physical room, then sit sil…
The ability to send code snippets and URLs alone makes chatting this way worth it.