Ask HN: Best IRC channels? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by gmcwhirter » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 12:48 PM UTC

Hoozt wrote: post #17

#linux, #ruby, #rubyonrails, #bitcoin, #javascript, #nginx, #ubuntu, #rubymotion ... to name a few I visit. They are all on the Freenode network.

More or less the same for me...

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by d99kris » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 12:53 PM UTC

Is there a #hn or #hackernews?

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by Zolomon » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 12:55 PM UTC

I hang out on #gamedev@irc.afternet.org, very talented people help each other out there.

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by Jedd » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 1:06 PM UTC

frankwiles wrote: post #40

I've recently been using SaltStack and have found #saltstack on Freenode to be very welcoming and helpful which is nice. Often you go into a channel and it's a ghost town or out right hostile to relatively simple questions. I think OSS projects in general could learn a bit of "marketing" in this regard, if your IRC channels are toxic, I immediately think your community as a whole may be toxic.

I'll second this -- #salt is a welcoming channel full of informed and helpful types. Similarly #mynt. Heck, I'd suggest that almost any free software project where at least one of the primary developers loiters would be an answer to your question.

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by xsquare » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 1:16 PM UTC

#programming-language-you-really-like and #distro-you-really-like on Freenode I guess...

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by incidence » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 1:16 PM UTC

#defocus / ##defocus

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by quchen » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 1:19 PM UTC

emhart wrote: post #34

agumonkey wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

excerpt of #haskell quality of life https://gist.github.com/quchen/5280339

" Haskell is invariant under gender. Really!" Some great stuff in there :)

I think merijn got the highscore in the conversation though :-P

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by diminoten » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 1:20 PM UTC

##programming on freenode is terrible. Don't go there.

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by chadfowler » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 1:30 PM UTC

#shitfire!!! (on freenode). ;)

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by draegtun » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 1:38 PM UTC

jokoon wrote: post #26

just connect to some popular network like freenode, and retrieve the channel list, and sort by users. #ubuntu 1701 #archlinux 1695 #bitcoin 1602 #debian 1492 ##linux 1360 #python 1349 #freenode 1304 #haskell 1200 #Node.js 1186 #dogecoin 1120 #gentoo 1091 #git 1047 #puppet 956 ##javascript 941 #vim 936 #python-unregistered #go-nuts 893 #android 889 #bash 858 #ruby 847 #jquery 750 #postgresql 747 #litecoin 711 ##math 7…

Also note that Perl has its own hosted IRC channels at irc.perl.org