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To be honest, who on HN actually uses IRC anymore? Going on feeenode 5 years ago, it already felt lifeless. How can something already dead commit suicide :smile
by foxes 5y ago
To be honest, who on HN actually uses IRC anymore? Going on feeenode 5 years ago, it already felt lifeless. How can something already dead commit suicide :smile:. Maybe there were some obscure side hold outs?
- Clewza313 5y agoThe stats in the article show ~150k users on the "old" freenode... and ~6k tops on the new one.
- foxes 5y agoAre they actually active discussing things for a substantial period of time? Or just lurking afk in the background. I recall joining and then there barely being any discussion in chats, mostly just user action spam.
- tephra 5y agoI'm an everyday IRC user and most channels (7+ or so) I'm in are very active.
- mousepilot 5y agoonce every year or two, I find an irc client, join undernet, and refresh my ban from #politics. sort of a ritual for me. (edit, had wrong irc network)
- kadoban 5y ago"user action spam" suggests to me that you had join/part messages displayed. Turn those off in your client. With those on, no wonder you couldn't see any signal through the noise. After that, just find the good channels, there's quite a few depending on what you're into.