Earlier quoted context omitted.
No IRCnet or EFnet mention? I don't want to be a part of this.
Agreed and has been included now, I apologize for that! Please take part in this! IRC is community.
I was just kidding about the not taking part ;-)
Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
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Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
IRC was the chat server. Freenode was THE OSS irc chat server. There wasn't any other game in town that could scale well enough that was free.
If Freenode was shutting down it would be closer to "gmail is shutting down" IMHO.
According to another comment in this thread, Freenode has 90k CCU, with hundreds of thousands over a period of a few months. The best number I can find for gmail is here [0], which shows Gmail had 72 million active users on android 6 years ago. Sorry to say but Freenode shutting down wouldn't even be a blip compared to gmail shutting down
[0] https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/article/2014/tops-of-...
Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#123I don't really use IRC anymore but at the time I remember really hating loggers. Chats were informal and I really didn't like them showing up in google results and elsewhere. Not everything needs to be saved.
Are you planning to delete this comment in a couple of days?
HN only lets you delete comments that are less than something like 2 hours old, I think.
Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
that's why you use pseudonyms ;)
Pseudonyms aren't a silver bullet.
If you want a quick, casual conversation, I don't see why pseudonyms wouldn't be sufficient. You can also use random names if you're asking something really sensitive, which you would want to do in any case because it's a public space. For more in depth you can use your name if you want or a fixed pseudonym so you can recognize and be recognized.
There aren't many uncovered edge cases I can see.
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#125Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#126Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Freenode was shutting down it would be closer to "gmail is shutting down" IMHO.
According to another comment in this thread, Freenode has 90k CCU, with hundreds of thousands over a period of a few months. The best number I can find for gmail is here [0], which shows Gmail had 72 million active users on android 6 years ago. Sorry to say but Freenode shutting down wouldn't even be a blip compared to gmail shutting down [0] https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/article/2014/tops-of-...
I believe it was meant in proportion to the size of email vs IRC.
> Sorry to say but
Please just drop that prefix.
Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can be killed, or worse, someone you care about.
woah that escalated quickly... 0_o
Once you’re dealing with criminals that are stealing in the order of millions of dollars, or sometimes even hundreds of thousands, the probability of being killed off for being a trouble maker dramatically increases. Anything over 10 million you will almost certainly be killed if discovered. By then you are dealing with robust criminal organizations with full time employees on a payroll with families to feed, and they aren’t going to put all that at risk because of one nosey fuck snooping around.
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Perhaps a naive question, but how do chanops enforce this? What's to stop someone lurking in a channel and publishing a log. You can't obviously connect an individual lurker to a log and busy channels have dozens of 24/7 clients connected.
> You can't obviously connect an individual lurker to a log I don't think that's necessarily true. While I don't know if the IRC Server software supports it, there's no reason you couldn't encode some kind of unique tag into the stream of IRC messages sent to each client. Unless you were running two clients and diffing their logs you wouldn't notice. It could be as simple as seeing additional events, or modified whoi…
Yeah, that's not a real thing. You can't connect an individual lurker to a log.
Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#130I just wanted to take a moment and share with the HN community that IRC is definitely very alive and kicking! There are great channels for thousands of amazing projects, communities and teams spread across so many great IRC Networks, from Freenode [1] to OFTC [2], to Rizon [3], to DALnet [4], to tildeverse [5], Snoonet [6], Quakenet [7], EFnet [8], IRCnet [9] among other networks [10]. IRC is no longer difficult to u…
On DOS, there's mtcp's ircjr. On AmigaOS, amirc (which many clients cloned the UI of) and wookiechat. Even kolibriOS ships an irc client. It's a nice, simple protocol that's human readable and imposes very little overhead on the clients.
I miss gopher support on kolibriOS, it's the brother "simple" protocol for hypermedia. No TLS support as IRC, but you can either:
- use TOR over a gopher client.
- use and promote Gemini in paralell.
With Bitlbee and sacc(1) I can access even HN via Gopher and comment it on Telegram via sic(1). Magical and my setup could work even under a 286 with Minix2.