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This is my experience on irc today as well. It’s dead. I used to keep a few channels open at work all day long in 2007. #j2me, #java, #c. The conversation was

This is my experience on irc today as well. It’s dead. I used to keep a few channels open at work all day long in 2007. #j2me, #java, #c. The conversation was active with no more than a few minutes of silence at a time. People would say good morning at the start of the day, goodbye at the end, they would talk about their weekend. It was like a virtual break room where you could ask tech questions (except #c was hostile to questions, those guys were weird) and make friendships. It’s not just less active now. It’s dead every time I look.

leetbulb 7y ago
This is just over the past couple days: https://i.imgur.com/WUFiL18.png https://i.imgur.com/WUFiL18.png I wouldn't call it dead at all.
- Orion21 7y ago
  where/how do you connect to these rooms? I would love to hang out in the #linux room
  - sjs382 7y ago
    The channels from his screenshot are on Freenode.
    - Orion21 7y ago
      thank you!
  - leetbulb 7y ago
    As the other reply said: Freenode. But I also am on other servers and many other channels. I run a The Lounge[0] instance on a cheap VPS. [0] https://thelounge.chat/ https://thelounge.chat/
wyclif 7y ago
It's totally not dead. I've thought for years that IRC is underrated now. I'd much rather participate in an IRC channel than something like, say, Slack. Active channels come and go. Some legacy channels are better than others. Some of them die and people move on to next level, more obscure channels. I just mentioned as an example in a comment above my experience in #python on Freenode which has been overwhelmingly active and positive. You also need to consider when the channel is most active, it's usually gonna be late afternoon and evening in US and European time zones. YMMV.
daxorid 7y ago
2007 EfNet #java was an absolutely magical place. Honestly, I think things started declining when the original jjava bot got wiped :( RIP, jjava. But yes, IRC channels in those days didn't take kindly to questions from people who didn't bother reading the docs, and imho that was a very good thing. Nobody properly learns by being spoonfed.
catacombs 7y ago
> This is my experience on irc today as well. It’s dead. It's not dead. You're just in the wrong severs.

leetbulb 7y ago

This is just over the past couple days: https://i.imgur.com/WUFiL18.png https://i.imgur.com/WUFiL18.png I wouldn't call it dead at all.

Orion21 7y ago
where/how do you connect to these rooms? I would love to hang out in the #linux room
- sjs382 7y ago
  The channels from his screenshot are on Freenode.
  - Orion21 7y ago
    thank you!
- leetbulb 7y ago
  As the other reply said: Freenode. But I also am on other servers and many other channels. I run a The Lounge[0] instance on a cheap VPS. [0] https://thelounge.chat/ https://thelounge.chat/

wyclif 7y ago

It's totally not dead. I've thought for years that IRC is underrated now. I'd much rather participate in an IRC channel than something like, say, Slack. Active channels come and go. Some legacy channels are better than others. Some of them die and people move on to next level, more obscure channels. I just mentioned as an example in a comment above my experience in #python on Freenode which has been overwhelmingly active and positive. You also need to consider when the channel is most active, it's usually gonna be late afternoon and evening in US and European time zones. YMMV.

daxorid 7y ago

2007 EfNet #java was an absolutely magical place. Honestly, I think things started declining when the original jjava bot got wiped :( RIP, jjava. But yes, IRC channels in those days didn't take kindly to questions from people who didn't bother reading the docs, and imho that was a very good thing. Nobody properly learns by being spoonfed.

catacombs 7y ago

> This is my experience on irc today as well. It’s dead. It's not dead. You're just in the wrong severs.