If so could you recommend any good Server/Channels.
Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
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Re: Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
#2There'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.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
#3There'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.
Heading there now!
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
#4Whatever 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.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
#5I 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.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
#6Every day at work. I can't recommend any channels to you though.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
#7I hang out on a private IRC server with about 15 folks, mostly old friends of mine working in various parts of the industry. It's primarily a place to talk about geeky topics and complain about work.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
#8Yup. My company uses it amongst the devs to stay in touch. I also lurk on #nodejs.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
#9Yep. Freenode IRC. I lurk on about 25 channels, ranging from the local Linux User's Group channel, to the #startups channel (which draws a lot of HN'ers) to the channels for several programming languages I use, etc.
IRC is definitely alive and well, especially on Freenode.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
#10People with tiling window managers seem to IRC a lot.