I’ve noticed some blog posts mentioning IRC communities. I personally haven’t used IRC in ages and I’m curious about who is still using it and why. Examples welcome.
https://xkcd.com/1782 for some
It’s the predecessor of discord etc. So if you are old enough and nerdy enough… I am only old enough ;-)
(In even earlier times, there was “finger” for personal status messages - googel it if you don’t know it)
“finger”
They stole this from Unix. Finger was a common binary, installed world-wide.
Daily by abstraction.
Twitch chat and discord text channels are pretty much IRC in disguise.
I know Alpine Linux uses IRC for development. https://alpinelinux.org/community/
I go there from time to time when I have an issue I can’t figure out myself.
It’s mature and simple which is why I believe it’s used more often by developers.
And for those people using IRC: which network(s) do you use? I have fuzzy memories of EFnet and DALnet being big, but I’ve been away from IRC for a long time.
That’s always been my barrier of entry
I use it occasionally. The problem is, most of my communities are on Discord. Plus, rooms not being permanent on the server means that bots have to be hosted by someone, plus there’s a severe lack of effective logging.
Basically, all the problems that later chat programs solve, I keep missing on IRC. I want persistent rooms. I want federation & bridging between servers. I need trustworthy remote logs. Since I know a lot of that has been handled client-side, I don’t understand why it can’t be implemented server-side with IRCv4 or whatever is next.
Seems like what you want is matrix
I’ve used it occasionally to chat with fellow NetHack players.
NetHack. Tracker support. Very occasionally, ebooks and audiobooks I couldn’t find elsewhere.
Daily user, works just as well as discord, etc, no middle man (self hosted for many use cases).
