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Technology specific IRCs are still great resources as well!
by crayboff 4y ago
Technology specific IRCs are still great resources as well!
- doix 4y agoI really wish IRC was still the defecto choice for open source projects. Now days all I see is gitter/slack/discord/matrix which I find all have a significantly worse experience than IRC.
- warrenm 4y agoIf IRC was stateful (ie, it would "remember"/deliver offline messages when I sign-on again (at least buffer them for some configurable period)), I'd be onboard with using it for almost everything But it's not That's what made Slack so appealing early on - IRC-like communication with history
- oddly 4y agoMaybe you know already, but you can use an IRC relay to act as pseudo client, connect to that and then read back on messages. You’ll have to find a place to host it though. For example, “The Lounge”. Edit: typo
- warrenm 4y agoYeah, you can ... but that's a bolt-on/additional service that, quite frankly, IRC ought to Just Do™ at this point It's 2022, not 1988 :)
- Gud 4y agoI just keep my irssi running on a Vultr VM.
- warrenm 4y agoI used to do that Too much hassle, imo
- hombre_fatal 4y agoIRC has OP’s problem taken to the next level. The people clinging onto IRC in this age are increasingly insufferable.
- crayboff 4y agoThat's the opposite of my experience even to this day. As long as you follow question asking etiquette (do research before you ask, don't ask to ask, explain what you've tried so far, etc), people are usually good at answering questions when they can.
- ceejayoz 4y agoYou may both be right. Chances are this varies wildly from IRC channel to IRC channel.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoFunnily enough your comment describes SO just the same. How many people complaining about SO here have really just asked poor questions, hadn't explained what they tried, didn't do enough research first to ask a good question, etc.