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Average IRC experience: >blub has connected >blub has changed nickname to glub >Hello anyone here? (* 10 hours later no replies, 10 hours of random connect/
by foxes 4y ago
Average IRC experience:
>blub has connected
>blub has changed nickname to glub
>Hello anyone here?
(* 10 hours later no replies, 10 hours of random connect/disconnect spam *)
- ayushnix 4y agoTo be fair, https://dontasktoask.com/ https://dontasktoask.com/ should be basic etiquette on any chat platform at this point. I understand that some people may not be familiar with this etiquette but I won't be surprised if someone doesn't receive a response to "Hello anyone here?". What does one expect in this case? If there are 13 people online, all of them should reply "Yes, I'm here"?
- foxes 4y agoI think you missed the point. Irc is basically a ghost town apart from random noise compared to other popular communication channels.
- ayushnix 4y agoAh, yes, smaller channels can certainly seem that way and the join leave logs are basically spam. For what it's worth, I've been active on three channels in the past few months — #openwrt on OFTC, #vim and #neovim on Libera. I've always got responses fairly quickly on #openwrt and #vim.
- Gigachad 4y agoLow volume irc channels are useless because of all the join quit spam. As well as username spam where bouncers will auto change the username based on away status.
- foxes 4y agoIt felt like basically all of them even 5 years ago. I can only imagine by now it’s a completely barren wasteland apart from a few scattered private survivors at this point.
- account42 4y agoNeither of those are sent as normal messages so just configure your client to not show them if you don't want them?
- user3939382 4y agoFirst thing I configure is to hide part join. I’ve been wanting for a long time to write a plug-in for irssi to hide it for all but those who recently spoke.