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Last Update 2005. I miss the 1990s with IRC them days were unreal and so much fun. Today I think of it as a tool to get help and to help others and that is abo
by baldfat 12y ago
Last Update 2005.
I miss the 1990s with IRC them days were unreal and so much fun. Today I think of it as a tool to get help and to help others and that is about it. Seems like channels get smaller every year except a few (Arch Linux and Ubuntu.
- coolsunglasses 12y agoThe Haskell channel on Freenode is growing, it's gone from floating around ~1000 people to 1400-1500 in the last 12 months.
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- reedlaw 12y agoMaybe it has something to do with edX's Functional Programming 101 course[1]. 1. https://courses.edx.org/courses/DelftX/FP101x/3T2014/50740634ca6844169acafae897a5f04f/ https://courses.edx.org/courses/DelftX/FP101x/3T2014/5074063...
- david_shaw 12y agoI can't speak for anyone else, but my personal IRC experience has simply gotten more private since the 90's. I still have an IRC client open whenever I'm on my computer, but these days I chat almost exclusively on private IRC channels and servers with people I've known for years. Instead of hordes of people swarming into large, public channels, it's a more intimate -- but just as genuine -- experience. Still, though, that model seems unsustainable: fewer and fewer people are joining IRC channels or getting into what used to be a "scene." I think there will always be die-hards on IRC, but there's no longer the coolness that there was fifteen years ago.
- p4bl0 12y agoI have the same experience. I have several group of friends where most people are on IRC 24/7. It makes us even more close to each other to be together all the time like this, and it is just an addition (we do not meet in person less often because of that). I think an important thing to note is that the majority of these friends are not computer scientists, engineers or anything that have to do with computers, but they still learned to use irssi or weechat and screen to join our IRC server :). I guess the point of my comment is to say that maybe IRC use has changed, but it still is an effective and active communication tool that many people rely on daily, among which some have only known IRC the way I described it: as a communication tool for group of friends (maybe a bit like social networks).
- dsirijus 12y agoYou're also hogging my 'ds<Tab>' completion in #startups, dude. One stupid letter in front of me! <3
- pmoriarty 12y agoIRC has a lot of life still left in it. Here's a small sample from the FreeNode IRC network, from right now: |-------+------------| | Users | Channel | |-------+------------| | 1751 | #ubuntu | | 1620 | #debian | | 1590 | #archlinux | | 1488 | #haskell | | 1477 | #python | | 1109 | #gentoo | | 987 | #vim | | 877 | #ruby | | 815 | #emacs | | 652 | #perl | | 452 | #java | | 417 | #lisp | | 275 | #startups | [1] | 190 | #scheme | |-------+------------| And that's just one (admittedly popular) IRC network. There are 6 networks with over 10,000 users, and hundreds of smaller networks.[2] [1] - #startups - the HN channel! [2] - http://searchirc.com/networks http://searchirc.com/networks
- na85 12y agonetsplit.de has been doing statistics for who knows how long: http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/top10.php http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/top10.php
- pasiaj 12y agoThere's also the somewhat active #hackernews channel. https://www.dropbox.com/s/l95pvm6v7xtnyy1/Screen%20Shot%202014-11-30%20at%2022.25.55.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/l95pvm6v7xtnyy1/Screen%20Shot%2020...
- veb 12y agoI'm not sure why you gave us a screenshot, rather than just typing out the network, and how many users it has on the channel. Feels like it'd be a lot less work! :)
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- uptown 12y ago2013: It was re-skinned and marketed as "Slack".