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i thought it was - INSULT - RETORT - COUNTER-RETORT - RIPOSTE - COUNTER-RIPOSTE - NONSENSICAL STATEMENT INVOLVING PLANKTON - RESPON

i thought it was - INSULT - RETORT - COUNTER-RETORT - RIPOSTE - COUNTER-RIPOSTE - NONSENSICAL STATEMENT INVOLVING PLANKTON - RESPONSE TO RANDOM STATEMENT AND THREAT TO BAN OPPOSING SIDES - WORDS OF PRAISE FOR FISHFOOD - ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTENCE OF TERMS

ToucanLoucan 2y ago
I miss bash.org so much
- Forgeties79 2y ago
  thooose were thaa daaaaays
- 0_____0 2y ago
  irc died and was replaced with nothing
  - Sohcahtoa82 2y ago
    IRC isn't dead. Individual channels are dead, sure. 15 years ago, EFnet's #wow was quite busy and frequently had over 100 people in it. Now, it's down to just 20, with at least 7 of them being bots, the rest are idle. We went two weeks without a single message. I even unbanned the trolls just to get some excitement back, but they went silent (though didn't leave) once they realized the channel is indeed dead. But EFnet's #geekissues is still very active.
  - _shantaram 2y ago
    irc isn't dead, come join us on Libera! (and there's tons of other networks too, i just feel disingenuous inviting you to ones im not on)
    - dt3ft 2y ago
      Last time I checked it was just idle bots (or idle clients). Is it still this way nowadays?
      - dewey 2y ago
        What did you check? I'm in some channels like #postgresql or the channel of a hackerspace I'm part of and it's always active.
  - NitpickLawyer 2y ago
    Isn't discord this generation's IRC?
    - 0_____0 2y ago
      Kind of. IRC had a culture of its own. Also yungins might be surprised to learn that we had a distributed, open source communication network, where basically any dipshit with a static IP and a Pentium could start an IRC server and maybe get added to the network if they were reliable enough (I was one such dipshit).
    - RunSet 2y ago
      discord is this generation's yahoo groups.
    - ta988 2y ago
      Not really, the company can unilaterally ban someone or a server. With IRC you can start a private server and you are not at the mercy of anybody else. And you are not nagged all the time to guilt your users into boosting the server so they can use more features. Your users don't have to pay if they want to have different profiles on different servers. Your users can use any interface they want to access the service... So you are right in a sense that discord replace IRC as a means of communication for the majority, but in term of freedom it is a regression. If IRC had supported offline history keeping things could have been different, but for the people I know it was a major blocker for adoption. They didn't want to have to setup a server to bounce from or keep something running all the time.
  - dewey 2y ago
    It was replaced by group chats, Discord servers, Telegram groups etc.
  - ta988 2y ago
    it is not dead, just that the masses have their shiny full of gifs and spread in 50 channels per topic alternatives now.
- Izkata 2y ago
  Have fun: https://bash-org-archive.com/ https://bash-org-archive.com/

ToucanLoucan 2y ago

I miss bash.org so much

Forgeties79 2y ago
thooose were thaa daaaaays
0_____0 2y ago
irc died and was replaced with nothing
- Sohcahtoa82 2y ago
  IRC isn't dead. Individual channels are dead, sure. 15 years ago, EFnet's #wow was quite busy and frequently had over 100 people in it. Now, it's down to just 20, with at least 7 of them being bots, the rest are idle. We went two weeks without a single message. I even unbanned the trolls just to get some excitement back, but they went silent (though didn't leave) once they realized the channel is indeed dead. But EFnet's #geekissues is still very active.
- _shantaram 2y ago
  irc isn't dead, come join us on Libera! (and there's tons of other networks too, i just feel disingenuous inviting you to ones im not on)
  - dt3ft 2y ago
    Last time I checked it was just idle bots (or idle clients). Is it still this way nowadays?
    - dewey 2y ago
      What did you check? I'm in some channels like #postgresql or the channel of a hackerspace I'm part of and it's always active.
- NitpickLawyer 2y ago
  Isn't discord this generation's IRC?
  - 0_____0 2y ago
    Kind of. IRC had a culture of its own. Also yungins might be surprised to learn that we had a distributed, open source communication network, where basically any dipshit with a static IP and a Pentium could start an IRC server and maybe get added to the network if they were reliable enough (I was one such dipshit).
  - RunSet 2y ago
    discord is this generation's yahoo groups.
  - ta988 2y ago
    Not really, the company can unilaterally ban someone or a server. With IRC you can start a private server and you are not at the mercy of anybody else. And you are not nagged all the time to guilt your users into boosting the server so they can use more features. Your users don't have to pay if they want to have different profiles on different servers. Your users can use any interface they want to access the service... So you are right in a sense that discord replace IRC as a means of communication for the majority, but in term of freedom it is a regression. If IRC had supported offline history keeping things could have been different, but for the people I know it was a major blocker for adoption. They didn't want to have to setup a server to bounce from or keep something running all the time.
- dewey 2y ago
  It was replaced by group chats, Discord servers, Telegram groups etc.
- ta988 2y ago
  it is not dead, just that the masses have their shiny full of gifs and spread in 50 channels per topic alternatives now.
Izkata 2y ago
Have fun: https://bash-org-archive.com/ https://bash-org-archive.com/