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DomIRC – An IRC network for all domain name owners and their communities
- thinkxl 10y ago##frontend on freenode, we are off-topic almost all the time.
- Jaruzel 10y agoI haven't used IRC aggressively in over 15 years. What's with the double hashes I now see on the front of channel names? Is one hash no longer enough?
- mirages 10y agodouble hash means non official channel. Single hash means that the channel is administered by "official" staff member. Example #debian would have operators that are really member of the debian project while ##debian is your old normal IRC channel on first serve basis
- Xenthys 10y agoTo clear that up a bit, you can register a channel like #domain.tld only if you control the DNS zone of the said domain, and you can't get op in a primary channel without registering it first.
- zokier 10y agoWell, that is definitely one way of approaching the lack of federation in IRC
- Xenthys 10y agoYeah. In fact, there is a lot of networks but they are made because people want to experiment and operate a server then they wonder what they could use it for. Here, well, we had a goal and IRC was a solution, as once you have your channel you just have to add an iframe on your website and tadam, a fully functioning live webchat with permissions! ;)
- dijit 10y agoI think this is rather a novel way of approaching verification. If someone has ops in a channel he or she must either be a webmaster or someone trusted by a webmaster. Whether this is useful or not is sort of irrelevant, it's a fun exercise.
- ShinyCyril 10y agoSlightly off-topic, but IRC discussions don't come up too regularly. What channels / networks are people hanging out in? I mainly lurk on ##re and ##security on Freenode.
- Iuz 10y ago#startups on freenode is great.
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- jayflux 10y agoFreenode: #web #startups (although not been in there for ages) #go-nuts
- Xenthys 10y agoObviously I'm on DomIRC, but also on freenode like probably a lot of us. I mainly hang in ##france, #bfnt, #botters, #codebottle and #freenode related channels, among a lot of others channels but the list is way too long ;)
- pvdebbe 10y ago#emacs on Freenode is great, if one can handle the traffic. Great convos and greatest (IT/CS related) memes.
- paavokoya 10y agoFreenode is HEAVILY moderated and censored to the point of restricting basic free speech. Find a different place. To the downvoters: you are doing exactly what I'm talking about
- andrewguenther 10y agoLack of evidence is probably the reason you're getting downvoted.
- bcook 10y ago
- Bino 10y agoIf it only were controlled by a formal entity like the root zone owner it would be somewhat awesome, as this project or company may die out if not successfully enough... Still an upvote
- Xenthys 10y agoWell, it is controlled by a non-profit organization already funded by something else. There are no profits created by this network, so even if it does not work well, we will not lose money. About the organization itself, it has others activities maintaining it alive. As the President of Blackfields Network, the parent organization of DomIRC, I swear we will maintain this network as long as we exist.
- xj9 10y agoThat's the problem with federated systems: we (users) have to rely on the promises and whims of our system operators to have access. I don't trust or distrust you, I wish I didn't have to decide.
- Xenthys 10y agoYeah, I have experienced that as well and I get your point, that's mainly why we have created a whole structure and registered an organization, even if we can never predict what will happen next we can always do our best to get the odds in our favour. Unfortunately, the best alternative would probably be the P2P way, with something like https://matrix.org/ https://matrix.org/ which also seems to be nice.
- erlehmann_ 10y agoYou can host your own XMPP server today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP
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- micro_softy 10y ago"Slack for everyone". (After paying some registrar and ICANN gets its 13 cents or whatever.) Pay to play DNS aside, this is really what the "web 2.0" should have been. IMHO, an IRC channel has always been more functional than a "website". It makes peer to peer easy.
- na85 10y agoIf only the big networks weren't so change averse, we could have had a new RFC for IRC that included mobile/roaming-friendly protocols, which IMHO is the #1 thing holding IRC back in the current age. Does my client really have to burn battery by sending a PONG back every half second or so? Can't we have seamless roaming without disconnects?
- voltagex_ 10y agohttp://ircv3.net/ http://ircv3.net/ - not sure if it fixes the PONG issue, though.
- erlehmann_ 10y agoXMPP works so well on mobile connections that I have been using IRC over XMPP almost exclusively for quite some time using a transport that maps any IRC channel to an XMPP MUC (#maemo on freenode is “maemo%irc.freenode.net@irc.netlab.cz”) and any IRC user to an XMPP user (nickserv on freenode is “nickserv!irc.freenode.net@irc.netlab.cz”). Even when the connection is gone for several minutes (like when using UMTS on a train), XMPP usually transmits all pending messages as soon as I am back online. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP
- jtrtoo 10y agoWow, that reminds me of UUCP.
- erlehmann_ 10y agoHow so? Please elaborate.