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IRC brings back some memories. I haven't personally used IRC in a few years directly, but I can remember how when I started university, every freshman "had" to
by asdojasdosadsa 8y ago
IRC brings back some memories. I haven't personally used IRC in a few years directly, but I can remember how when I started university, every freshman "had" to login to IRC through SSH and screen :-). That's where the course channels were sitting and you could get help, either if you didn't want to ask face to face, go to school or just needed to ask something. There were other channels too, some where you were invited and had small social groups you chatted with daily.
Nowadays, most of the communication has migrated to Telegram from IRC.
EDIT:
If one was to start using IRC, I guess there isn't a channel or a server where most or some of the people using also Hacker News go?
- pingec 8y agoPerhaps #hackernews and #startups on freenode?
- Doxin 8y agoAnother good starting point is #xkcd. it is a large channel with a lot of tech-ish and math-y people. EDIT: Note that channel discovery on IRC is largely a word-of-mouth thing so don't be shy to ask people for channel recommendations on irc. Most programming language have a dedicated channel, e.g. #D or #python or whatnot.
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- eahman09 8y agoThe last thing I want in this world is to enter a channel full of people who like xkcd. It must be insufferable.
- schindlabua 8y agoAre you talking about freenode? I just joined #xkcd and it's 8 people and no topic set. 3 other users joined and immediately left, I guess those were from HN aswell. (A big channel for everyone to join is ##programming, by the way.)
- Doxin 8y agoAh I should have specified. sorry. It's at irc.foonetic.net
- mrmyers 8y ago#emacs would be my recommendation. It's a pretty great channel for random discussion/chatter, and every now and then people even discuss emacs.