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Re: Bash.org is back

#31

Post by [deleted] »

tinco wrote: post #30
mpyne wrote: post #17

This deserves way more than 70 points in 2 hours. If bash.org isn't up HN's alley I don't know what is!

Bash.org has been up and down quite a few times for the past few years, there's only one real reason that it's interesting and that's for it sentimental value. Who ever browses bash.org for new content anymore? IRC's only used for open source communication and general knowledge channels nowadays anyway, not much fun going on still. Unless general IRC channels and networks experience a revival there won't ever be a be…

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Re: Bash.org is back

#32

Post by snogglethorpe »

tinco wrote: post #30
mpyne wrote: post #17

This deserves way more than 70 points in 2 hours. If bash.org isn't up HN's alley I don't know what is!

Bash.org has been up and down quite a few times for the past few years, there's only one real reason that it's interesting and that's for it sentimental value. Who ever browses bash.org for new content anymore? IRC's only used for open source communication and general knowledge channels nowadays anyway, not much fun going on still. Unless general IRC channels and networks experience a revival there won't ever be a be…

> IRC's only used for open source communication

I know non-open-source companies (of various sizes/ages) that use IRC for internal dev communication...

What's the alternative to IRC, with similar characteristics?

Re: Bash.org is back

#33

Post by slifty »

snogglethorpe wrote: post #32
tinco wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bash.org has been up and down quite a few times for the past few years, there's only one real reason that it's interesting and that's for it sentimental value. Who ever browses bash.org for new content anymore? IRC's only used for open source communication and general knowledge channels nowadays anyway, not much fun going on still. Unless general IRC channels and networks experience a revival there won't ever be a be…

> IRC's only used for open source communication I know non-open-source companies (of various sizes/ages) that use IRC for internal dev communication... What's the alternative to IRC, with similar characteristics?

Slack / HipChat.

Re: Bash.org is back

#34

Post by pionar »

snogglethorpe wrote: post #32
tinco wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bash.org has been up and down quite a few times for the past few years, there's only one real reason that it's interesting and that's for it sentimental value. Who ever browses bash.org for new content anymore? IRC's only used for open source communication and general knowledge channels nowadays anyway, not much fun going on still. Unless general IRC channels and networks experience a revival there won't ever be a be…

> IRC's only used for open source communication I know non-open-source companies (of various sizes/ages) that use IRC for internal dev communication... What's the alternative to IRC, with similar characteristics?

XMPP, places like jabbr.net

Re: Bash.org is back

#36

Post by JoshTriplett »

gknoy wrote: post #14

It's interesting how many of the things make me think, "This is awesome!" (like the "boolean awesomeness" one that JoshTriplett linked), and yet so many also are such examples of hatefulness (e.g., top ones) and the kind of things that I would not want anyone to read.

See also 4chan. Pervasively offensive and frequently hateful, yet also the source of impressive content, touching moments, activism, and miscellaneous awesomeness.

Re: Bash.org is back

#37

Post by sktrdie »

This one is my personal favorite: http://bash.org/?104052

   lol
   I download something from Napster
   And the same guy I downloaded it from starts 
        downloading it from me when I'm done
   I message him and say "What are you doing? 
        I just got that from you"
   "getting my song back fucker"

Re: Bash.org is back

#38

Post by csennn »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #36
gknoy wrote: post #14

It's interesting how many of the things make me think, "This is awesome!" (like the "boolean awesomeness" one that JoshTriplett linked), and yet so many also are such examples of hatefulness (e.g., top ones) and the kind of things that I would not want anyone to read.

See also 4chan. Pervasively offensive and frequently hateful, yet also the source of impressive content, touching moments, activism, and miscellaneous awesomeness.

human nature in a nutshell

Re: Bash.org is back

#39

Post by mpyne »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #22
mpyne wrote: post #17

This deserves way more than 70 points in 2 hours. If bash.org isn't up HN's alley I don't know what is!

The main rule on HN is you have to be nice, and the main rule on IRC is exactly the opposite, so I don't see it getting many upvotes here

There's a fair amount of IRC channels which are nice (and where that's enforced). IRC is a technology, not an ideology, just like the WWW that underpins HN.
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