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The end of a certain Internet epoch, I should say.
by WesolyKubeczek 5y ago
The end of a certain Internet epoch, I should say.
- vvpan 5y agoI do not think the so. The URL did not make the era, the communities did. If a community is strong enough they'll just move. So everything is still on. It's like if software forks an renames it's still the same thing.
- eloeffler 5y agoThis whole scandal actually makes me want to dive into IRC again after a long time just because it shows me how many commited people are active there and how much I was probably missing. I don't want to say it was a good thing that it happened, just that from my perspective it shed new light on IRC and some others might feel so, too.
- ryukafalz 5y agoYup, there are lots of great communities still on IRC. :)
- rubin55 5y agoI can definitely recommend it. #algorithms, #haskell, #python, #java.. amazingly great + skilled communities. I learned so much from people there.. A quick "hey, how would you do this in $language" gives you like 5 responses which give you an immediate deep understanding of what's possible, how you could go about it, which versions of the given language support such an aproach, etc.
- raxxorrax 5y agoI think after a few years of Discord and Slack, I am happy to get back to IRC (ok, I never left). Sure, different feature set and I like some of the stuff modern alternatives bring to the table. But they also bring a lot of disadvantages.