IRC, anyone still use it?

MasterPlan1 · 26 Jan 2012 at 22:36

I have this sudden urge to get back into IRC again, since I quit clan gaming, got a WoW addiction, I've not really had the "social" aspect of the internets apart from facebook, which is barely social, it's like reddit vomitting onto a photo album of friends children..

Is QNet still the place to be? All the channels I used to loiter in are probably dead, #quake3.uk for instance

Dunks · 26 Jan 2012 at 22:37

I use it daily. Keep in touch with people.

RomanNose · 26 Jan 2012 at 22:37

Yes. But I can't say the server as it will get me in trouble.

[FnG]magnolia · 26 Jan 2012 at 22:39

Haven't used it since clan days.

King Damager · 26 Jan 2012 at 22:41

[FnG]magnolia;21128670 said:
Haven't used it since clan days.

This.

kd

Skillmister · 26 Jan 2012 at 22:41

hop into an old clan one every now and then to catch up with people. still chat to most of them daily on ts though

sniffy · 26 Jan 2012 at 22:41

Yeah I use it most days. Good for discussing problems and possible solutions with other programmers.

BusError · 26 Jan 2012 at 22:45

I've been on IRC for 20+ years, idling on about 20 channels. I even use it for work, as I convince people working remotely with me to "stick around" and idle on IRC, it's a LOT less intrusive than skype and they other "needy" instant messaging.

JBod · 26 Jan 2012 at 22:46

Been online in many a IRC server/channel for well over 15 years now. Apart from when my server reboots. Which is irritating.

We also have a company one for team communications and cross team communications.

Check out http://grove.io

Rroff · 26 Jan 2012 at 22:48

Stopped using is around 2006 ish when the Quake 3 community dropped off significantly - before that I'd used it for a good 10 years or so with almost 24x7 uptime using a BNC lol.

JBod · 26 Jan 2012 at 22:50

Bouncers are for noobs. Screen + IRSSI is your friend.

RomanNose · 26 Jan 2012 at 22:52

JBod said:
Bouncers are for noobs. Screen + IRSSI is your friend.

What about bouncer + IRSSI so you have the best of both worlds

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Wizzfizz · 26 Jan 2012 at 22:55

Rroff said:
Stopped using is around 2006 ish when the Quake 3 community dropped off significantly - before that I'd used it for a good 10 years or so with almost 24x7 uptime using a BNC lol.

Pretty much this.

axer · 26 Jan 2012 at 22:56

Every day, I'd be lost without IRC as its how I communicate with like minded sys admins and how we share our knowledge to help one another

sniffy · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:10

axer said:
Every day, I'd be lost without IRC as its how I communicate with like minded sys admins and how we share our knowledge to help one another

Yeah IRC is excellent for this. Saved myself many hours on problems just by talking a few minutes to someone who has solved a similar problem. Besides sharing technical knowledge in real-time and arranging clans wars I can't really see why anyone would use IRC nowadays.

A2Z · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:12

Used to use it every day when I was in a clan playing cs 1.6...havent used it since.

PermaBanned · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:17

I use it occasionally, keep meaning to install WeeChat or some other console based client but i never get round to anything. Great for getting quick answers to linux problems.

steve-h · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:21

Yes! MSN's multichat was dire... so we migrated to Freenode and haven't looked back since

LOAM · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:23

Daily

Neil79 · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:23

I used to use it to get the latest anime episodes through bots

don't need it now!