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> I enjoy that the barrier to entry with places like IRC are higher because it's directly correlated with the quality of discussion, in my experience at least.
by chronogram 7y ago
> I enjoy that the barrier to entry with places like IRC are higher because it's directly correlated with the quality of discussion, in my experience at least.
Opposite experience here. Examples: the #archlinux channel on Freenode I had on autojoin for ages but never saw that higher quality discussion there. The #Fedora channel is pretty good but not so much chatting there.
Last I used IRC was over a year ago, so maybe things changed.
- cbm-vic-20 7y agoUnfortunately, a lot of people have been switching over to using Discord, and that's splitting up a lot of the IRC community who doesn't want to move to a closed, corporate controlled system.
- chronogram 7y agoIt was not the quantity, it was the quality of especially the arch channel. But it is understandable that people move away from IRC, since, let’s be honest it’s not something you’d want to start with nowadays. Discord isn’t great, but it is easy and there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of alternatives.