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Answer to the second question is that no one uses IRC. The trend of using discord over forums does suck though, it’s really hard to search old discussions.

by zja 2y ago

bilekas 2y ago
I use IRC.. Discord is fine, I just prefer to have both.
- malux85 2y ago
  What are some good places for a technical / programming hangouts on IRC? Can you point me at some materials please?
  - Carrok 2y ago
    https://libera.chat/ https://libera.chat/ A channel listing will give you _many_ results.
    - pests 2y ago
      I remember back in the day I wouldn't even check the listings, just joining whatever #topic or #hobby or #software and finding it filled with people almost always.
  - gwd 2y ago
    Also see https://oftc.net/ https://oftc.net/, where a bunch of older-school development projects hang out. (That's where the Xen Project moved to after freenode imploded, before eventually switching to Matrix.)
djbusby 2y ago
Another option is a community hosted Mattermost (it's like Discord/Slack/IRC). It's pretty easy to run, all the chat are in PostgreSQL so it's "easy" to produce archive logs (like IRC has). Or do any other magic.
edm0nd 2y ago
IRC still has 270k users in 2024 via https://netsplit.de/ https://netsplit.de/ It's not like it used to be in the 90s but that's still something.
- JoeMattiello 2y ago
  How many of those are bots. 270k is basically no one. IRC is dead
- varenc 2y ago
  Discord has around 200 million monthly active users. At least according to one albeit dubious source: https://backlinko.com/discord-users#discord-monthly-active-users https://backlinko.com/discord-users#discord-monthly-active-u... Seems reasonable to go with the growing platform with 1000x more users.
jkhanlar 2y ago
> "Answer to the second question is that no one uses IRC." I agree! I am a nobody and forever will be a proud nobody!
Retr0id 2y ago
The target audience for web-based linux vm is much more likely to use IRC
Mutjake 2y ago
IRC <3 Still daily driving it with some friends. I wouldn’t be surprised if my Discord chat history was unavailable in a decade, so IRC is a nice option to run on the side. There’s value in simplicity, and I admit the risk of sounding like a tech hipster.
- vincentkriek 2y ago
  IRC has no chat history either, right. I get the simplicity of IRC but searchable history is a bonus for Discord. As long as the service is available, searching is kinda possible. With irc you have to find out which bot provides history, which is then usually split over multiple files
  - Mutjake 2y ago
    My client dies the logging, and I can e.g. grep decade old logs. I’m not sure if you can get same level of access to Discord logs (=export them). I guess Discord bot that logs everything as a historian is a partial solution (I guess log bot cannot catch DMs).

Answer to the second question is that no one uses IRC. The trend of using discord over forums does suck though, it’s really hard to search old discussions.

by zja 2y ago

Answer to the second question is that no one uses IRC. The trend of using discord over forums does suck though, it’s really hard to search old discussions.

bilekas 2y ago

I use IRC.. Discord is fine, I just prefer to have both.

malux85 2y ago
What are some good places for a technical / programming hangouts on IRC? Can you point me at some materials please?
- Carrok 2y ago
  https://libera.chat/ https://libera.chat/ A channel listing will give you _many_ results.
  - pests 2y ago
    I remember back in the day I wouldn't even check the listings, just joining whatever #topic or #hobby or #software and finding it filled with people almost always.
- gwd 2y ago
  Also see https://oftc.net/ https://oftc.net/, where a bunch of older-school development projects hang out. (That's where the Xen Project moved to after freenode imploded, before eventually switching to Matrix.)

djbusby 2y ago

Another option is a community hosted Mattermost (it's like Discord/Slack/IRC). It's pretty easy to run, all the chat are in PostgreSQL so it's "easy" to produce archive logs (like IRC has). Or do any other magic.

edm0nd 2y ago

IRC still has 270k users in 2024 via https://netsplit.de/ https://netsplit.de/ It's not like it used to be in the 90s but that's still something.

JoeMattiello 2y ago
How many of those are bots. 270k is basically no one. IRC is dead
varenc 2y ago
Discord has around 200 million monthly active users. At least according to one albeit dubious source: https://backlinko.com/discord-users#discord-monthly-active-users https://backlinko.com/discord-users#discord-monthly-active-u... Seems reasonable to go with the growing platform with 1000x more users.

jkhanlar 2y ago

> "Answer to the second question is that no one uses IRC." I agree! I am a nobody and forever will be a proud nobody!

Retr0id 2y ago

The target audience for web-based linux vm is much more likely to use IRC

Mutjake 2y ago

IRC <3 Still daily driving it with some friends. I wouldn’t be surprised if my Discord chat history was unavailable in a decade, so IRC is a nice option to run on the side. There’s value in simplicity, and I admit the risk of sounding like a tech hipster.

vincentkriek 2y ago
IRC has no chat history either, right. I get the simplicity of IRC but searchable history is a bonus for Discord. As long as the service is available, searching is kinda possible. With irc you have to find out which bot provides history, which is then usually split over multiple files
- Mutjake 2y ago
  My client dies the logging, and I can e.g. grep decade old logs. I’m not sure if you can get same level of access to Discord logs (=export them). I guess Discord bot that logs everything as a historian is a partial solution (I guess log bot cannot catch DMs).