What channel do you hang out? What do you use it for?
Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
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Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#2I infrequently hang out in the #go-nuts channel on freenode.
Re: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
#3I used it up through college and then switched over to Discord/Slack for all my text based conversations outside of texting from my phone. I really do miss the IRC crowd sometimes but the people I want to talk to are on Discord or Slack now.
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#4All day, every day! I work for a team of people that have been together for over 20 years in some cases, with a few people dropping out and a few people coming in over the years. We've always hung out in an IRC channel as our main form of team communication. Initially because there wasn't any other workable option, and now because it's what we've always done and it works for how our team operates.
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#5Yep. I pop in #NetBSD on Freenode on occasion, whenever In working on something in current or have an unanswered question. It seems to he the only place to get help on products that might not have the biggest userbase or support out there otherwise. Most channels I've been in have a pretty friendly userbase as well, at least much better than many Discord servers I've been it.
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#6For the people who are doing Advent of Code this year (https://adventofcode.com), there's an IRC channel on Freenode: ##adventofcode
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#7Idling, hoping it'll come back into prominence through some sort of nostalgia wave.
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#8sure. freenode for free and open projects and hackint for everything ccc / chaos community related.
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#9IRC is still the best place to get help quickly (if you know the right place to ask), especially for some more esoteric tech niches...
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#10I'm looking forward to when the onboarding process for IRC approaches the usability level of contemporary chat services such as Slack, Rocket Chat, Zulip, etc.