Anyone else miss IRC?

I still use IRC but mostly for game development (most of the companies I've been involved with have their own private channels or servers) and game betas... been using it for well over 10 years but the last 5-6 years sadly the number of people has dropped to a tenth of what it is and most are just idle. I do idle in the OcUK channel tho most days.

Back in the day my main useage for it was multiplayer gaming where each clan would have its own active channel with 30-40 people and there would be several community channels with ~1000 people plus channels for finding games, clan practises/matches, etc. Sadly those days are mostly long gone.
 
Rroff said:
I still use IRC but mostly for game development (most of the companies I've been involved with have their own private channels or servers) and game betas... been using it for well over 10 years but the last 5-6 years sadly the number of people has dropped to a tenth of what it is and most are just idle. I do idle in the OcUK channel tho most days.

Back in the day my main useage for it was multiplayer gaming where each clan would have its own active channel with 30-40 people and there would be several community channels with ~1000 people plus channels for finding games, clan practises/matches, etc. Sadly those days are mostly long gone.
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It's still quite "big" for Linux users, the Debian channel usually has over 300+ in it :cool:
 
Used to stop by #overclockers-uk occasionally, but I found I couldn't keep up, so I gave up.

My virus scanner recently got all flustered with my old nnScript install. Oops.
 
I use it a lot, and have done for the last 13 years. Usually if I'm at a computer I'm on IRC, even when I'm not my client still runs on a server, I use SSH and screen to reconnect to that.

My previous company used it for internal communications too, not to mention having community channels we had to be in.

Most of my friends are spread out all over the country (and some abroad), so IRC is how we most often chat and have a private channel for it.

I'm also in some heavily active community channels for things like XKCD (#xkcd on foonetic - always active no matter what time of day) and Multiplay (the i-series lan parties, #multiplay on Quakenet) not to mention several channels that have spun off from them over the years.

So no, I don't miss IRC. I would if I stopped using it though, it's an incredibly useful tool.
 
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Stopped using IRC properly around 2001 after using it in College in the late 90's, used to love the randomness of some channels like one in particular called #panties ...a channel based around novascotia in canada...
 
I tried using IRC, poked into a few channels when I actually figured out what I was doing, and got swiftly bored, guess I'll just stick to bash.org ;)
 
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16/F/Cali, and u?

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are those maternity pants? :o
 
ALT+Z if you like IRC!

For some reason I cannot get into the official IRC room, it says I am banned but have no idea why? I don't ever remember being in the official room either! well at least not for years an years.
 
Not used it for like, 5 years... It was great back in the day, #quake3.pickup or something on QNet. Ahh the days of Q3. I pretty much stopped using it when I got out of competitive gaming.

I only really chat to a few people, one of which my best friend that I met through a old CTF clan I used to be in, and a couple of other quake goons. The rest.. Can't be bothered.

The days of LANs are dead too, screw haulling my PC\monitor half way across the country to sit in a hall and eat junk food all weekend and not shower, and have some **** get insanely drunk and puke in the corner\the toilets on Saturday night.
 
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