Exploring IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

https://netsplit.de is a good resource for finding servers and networks as well as chat rooms across all of them, and a healthy dose of analytics data as well.

Re: Exploring IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

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Post by dewey » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 6:30 AM UTC

These days I just use https://www.irccloud.com/ as it comes with a decent mobile app and a good web interface and everything is in sync like any modern chat app. Getting this working with znc is a lot of work.

Re: Exploring IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

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Post by Lapsa » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 10:00 AM UTC

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Re: Exploring IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

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Post by omgmajk » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 12:16 PM UTC

Some communities are still heavily invested in IRC. It's good to see the same faces from 10-20 years ago still around.

Re: Exploring IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

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Post by dan-bailey » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 3:13 PM UTC

"I Repeat Classes"...

Re: Exploring IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

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Post by kaggie » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 4:12 PM UTC

Feels really weird seeing my post on HN lol. Glad people like it, I'm making some small edits for clarity today

Re: Exploring IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

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Post by MomsAVoxell » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 7:03 PM UTC

NKosmatos wrote: post #3

/me remembers the good old days of IRC, the netsplits and all the other good & bad things of the internet wild west…

For me just now, I had to take a bit of a breather and calm down for a second, as soon as I saw "Exploring IRC" I was taken back 30 years in time or so, when IRC was brand newish, and it paid to have a text file somewhere full of details to join the network and find out, in realtime, what was happening in the world.

Oh, how woolly things were before the web.