Their SREs are big fans as I understand it. Weirdly I found their GAE channel unfriendly and unhelpful when google took my startup offline as part of non sensical upgrade process. The ability to collaborate, combine and share information, and respond to contingencies on the fly was impressive.
Been using it since the late s. Freenode is still very active for tech. EnderMB on June 7, prev next [—]. I like IRC, and I'd like to use it more, but it all depends on the community. Back when I was getting to grips with. NET, the csharp channel was invaluable in getting immediate technical help.
Despite also being an avid Stack Overflow user at the time, csharp was a far more approachable place, and I'll always be thankful for their support. I'm sure it's mostly lurkers, but I've always preferred to see lively IRC channels, where you could jump in at any point and see technical discussion or just shooting the breeze.
Sometimes, I'd just go to a channel to chat about my day, or about the tech scene where I am compared to where others live. Yep been using IRC for over 10 years now and still love it. Always seem like any gui base chat client required more resources then they should. Also at the time getting into desktop chat clients one of the popular ones to make profit turn their client into a massive botnet selling cpu power to business.
This lead me to distrust gui clients early on. I recently had a handful of friends that wanted to get away from IRC mainly because smart phone interaction is not the best. Since we switched to keybase I feel like we talk less.
Also the desktop client doesn't close without using kill command which makes me open it less. I use IRC just for chatting with friends and strangers on internet. Shout out to the csharp channel on freenode some great people that regularly answer questions and help people out.
Dowwie on June 7, prev next [—]. Unfortunately, stakeholders in Rust decided to move to discord and decommission the Mozilla server, but there remains a determined smaller community on Freenode, rust. IRC remains one of the best ways to connect with technologists and talk shop. These decisions were made by disjoint sets of people. IRC is great. I've been on Freenode since I was an obnoxious teen. There are upsides and downsides to not generally having server-side channel history; one big upshot is that nobody needs to maintain the infrastructure to store, curate, and archive 30 years of IRC logs for a whole network.
It turns out that IRC's anonymity is incompatible with harassment swarming behaviors. I'm sad to see it fail as a social platform, but I won't miss it. Doxin on June 7, parent next [—]. Any vaguely modern IRC server runs nameserv and allows you to block unregistered nicks from channels.
It's not by any means a solved problem but it's a good stopgap against spam floods and the like. But I appreciate the thought. That is disappointing to hear. I have only been using IRC regularly since I have never been harassed, but I only spend time on tech channels such as emacs, python, gentoo etc.
Furiosity on June 6, prev next [—]. I've been constantly logged in to IRC at home since or so. I am active nearly every day. At work most of the coordination between programmers is via IRC--even though we're all in the same room. So yeah, IRC is still used. Anecdotally the population of some popular channels on freenode that I frequent has never been higher. Of course.
I use IRC for a bunch of different reasons. I have some bots, I occasionally frequent a few channels related to specific topics and it's a place where the snr can be quite high at times thanks to the fact that most of the noise is on other networks.
General experience is, the worst inputs come from the IRC interface. Occasionally that is a regular with a long running connection, or a genuine interaction with a normal person, but handwavingly-mostly the IRC side is someone who has clicked on a web IRC gateway, doesn't know what they're looking at, wants a "give me the codes" style answer or just wants to rant, doesn't respond to people when they offer help, and doesn't stick around.
Most people who join IRC and stick around, join and ask "oh there's a Discord, how can I get an invite? The biggest restrictions on things like inline-code are that the IRC interface can't deal, because it risks getting rate-limited for "flooding" the IRC servers because one bot user is echoing all the chat from every other user. Markdown which works well enough in Slack and Discord is left as Markdown markup and makes examples look broken in most all?
IRC clients. The slack and Discord can usefully impersonate each other's users with a hint that you're looking at text from a relay, IRC can't so all the text actually comes from a relay bot user which breaks nick highlighting, nake autocomplete, channel connected user lists.
The Slack experience is still user-hostile and indefensibly poor, I yearn for the days when typing some plain text didn't have seconds of lag all over the place, but the Discord user experience side is tolerably fine in almost every way, and better in many ways, except the ideology of it being proprietary and closed source and slurping data into the cloud forever. Often you'll find that if you ask a question and wait long enough for people to notice, that'll spark quite an active conversation.
Yes, irssi is still my favorite. Channels I like hanging out on django, linux. Keeping an eye on ii. I was an IRCCloud customer for a while. It was really good, and I left because my friends switched to a slack.
One more "yes, daily" here. I'm on Freenode for tech topics: octave, matlab, zsh, bash, machomebrew, and macports are active and useful. And I have a group of friends who are on a private IRC server and have been for years. We recently considered switching to a "modern" chat platform. Tried Slack, Matrix, Mattermost, Zulip, and a couple others. Decided we still liked the "feel" of IRC best. I hate all the whitespace and decoration that modern PWAs use.
Bouncers or IRCCloud solve the offline-delivery problem, and I can live without the other features that newer chat systems provide. I do on occasion but just for social purposes, not for work. I'm using it extensively for open source development.
Mostly Linux kernel and Uboot. I have a "the lounge" server running on digital ocean droplet so I can connect easily. Giving free users accounts to my server if anyone is interested. Drop me a line. Foxboron on June 6, prev next [—]. I have 91 windows open in my current irssi session. I think only 50 of those are actual channels and the other half is active or dead queries between people.
I use have slack for some group of friends, but I have been less active after they removed the IRC bridge. I try to avoid Discord.
IRC is also used for my core group of friends, some of them I got over when we started University together as I couldn't stand Facebook messenger. A lot of time is also spent on various open-source projects, mainly Arch Linux but also security related channels and misc projects.
LinuxBender on June 6, prev next [—]. Off and on I've used it for technical discussions, questions, etc, around various open source projects. I've shut down all my IRC servers. Most folks moved to Discord or Slack. Yes, I still use IRC. I use it on Freenode and also a few others. I would like to have server-side logging and have implemented it in a IRC server software once experimentally , but nobody else seems to have that. It has nothing to do with the protocol, but rather, with the implementation.
Since now some people are using Discord instead, I am not communicating with them. Yes of course. Both for technical and for social activities. The source is available[2], so you can set up your own too. I hate Slack with a passion. I just hope that within time, I will be able to release something to the world. If I join mountaincycles, there's bound to be people there who are somewhat interested in mountain cycles. The discussion usually is in no way moderated or limited to be just about cycles, though.
Less obtrusive than the stand alone and web clients. And way less resource hungry. I'm an active IRC user for professional open source work and personal projects for the last ish years. And still going strong. What many people say IRC "lack" in comparison with Slack or whatever new-fangled tool of the day is are its strengths. What I value in IRC: lack of clutter, simplicity, bloat-freeness, open standard, and not least of all, blazing fast, among others. Sure, IRC has its limitations, and is not suitable in certain scenarios.
But is still shines brightly when it comes to distraction-free, text-based communication. I'm also hoping the Matrix protocol takes off. I also hope Matrix takes off. I have been using riot. It does have its quirks but I'm finding the ability of having e2e-encrypted chat with multiple parties in a way I can move across devices quite useful. It also does support some more modern features like sharing pictures, files, and emojis without major issues. Arathorn on June 6, root parent next [—].
Every single day. It's a prereq for work anyway more than half the company is actually on IRC. I love IRC. Only really been on Freenode and a few other smaller networks since the glory days of EFNet et al were before my time but since I've met countless friends, some of which I know in person and I love working on open source projects with small but dedicated communities, which often use IRC.
Now if you excuse me I need to go move my bouncer to another box :. I have at various points used IRC more or less actively. I've also used Zephyr more often in the past MIT has a lot of users , and found it's ability to handle topics in a channel and diversions easier to work with than IRCs single stream.
While it certainly has it's faults, it provides simple basics and has a wide variety of clients which IMHO is the biggest downside of many alternatives, in that they either do not have alternative clients or the alternative clients do not function quite as the main ones.
I have Freenode haskell open pretty much all the time. There's some exceptionally clever people in there, and they're all polite, friendly, and generous with their time. Also the postgresql channel is great. I'm using the weechat client, which I found much easier to use and more polished than irssi.
And while I am sorry to see people reinventing the wheel with all those crazy web-based protocols, I can't help but think it's kind of nice with less people around. I collaborate er, troll and shitpost on Freenode in postmarketos, reprap, and devuan.
I wish people would be able to keep things simple and still use IRC instead of bullshit "productivity" apps like Slack. Make of that what you will. I wish people would just use sockets to communicate.
Way simpler than a heavy slow burdensome protocol like IRC. IRC is a protocol, not an app. Many apps can connect to it. An app can show previews if it wants to. Good point. What I meant is use an open protocol to which simple applications or whatever you prefer to use can be plugged.
Because my company uses Slack I now have to use their stupid UI proprietary implementation. I'm also annoyed that popular open source projects like Kubernetes moved to Slack because it's "discriminatory" to use IRC apparently.
The IRC protocol is entirely open. You can make extensions to do anything you want. Have you tried wee-slack or similar? So, no. Many IRC clients, in fact, do. So, yes, kind of. So, mu. The question was incorrect. Do you really want your client to load a URI just because someone dropped it in a channel you're in? Slack client doesn't load URIs, the server does. Yeah, long before Slack was a thing even. Hm, I am definitely not sure if you are joking. I miss IRC too.
Unfortunately I cannot find a good mac IRC client and that seriously has inhibited my desire to use it. I used to use gamesurge and enterthegame servers mainly to hang and chat with other gaming buddies.
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