Has IRC chat died? reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-10-25 05:05 I go to a few servers to poke around and see what's going on but for the most part it seems as if there aren't any active IRC channels like there used to be. Are all chat rooms dead or is it just IRC? The few that do have people seem to be very aggressive to new people in their channels. Why have a chat room if you don't want people coming there to chat? People are weird. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -NTnix- · 2012-10-25 06:50 A lot of people trade files on there, some botnets are controlled by channels to. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- b1naryth1ef · 2012-10-25 07:08 Depends where you go. It's heavily used in gaming these days, for management of clans, leagues, and organizations. Mozilla hosts a pretty active server, and lots of channels on freenode still fill up. No, its not as active as it has been in the past, but its not dead. (Source: I'm the coder for a bot system that runs in around ~600-800 clan channels at any one time) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-10-25 07:11 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- trua · 2012-10-25 08:59 IRC is still popular in Europe. About 3/4 of my friends are on IRC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-10-25 09:33 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jsimpson82 · 2012-10-25 10:13 freenode still continues to grow. Around 80,000 users now. Not all networks are dying. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cheez0r · 2012-10-25 11:38 Freenode and EFNet are both still kicking. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PriceChild · 2012-10-25 15:18 Yep, and seemingly consistent growth too! http://blog.freenode.net/2012/04/80k/ Current max is 83501. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- poo706 · 2012-10-25 16:06 IRC is my go to source for files. Usenet and cyberlockers are a good backup, but I don't ever touch torrents these days. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- austindkelly · 2012-10-25 16:45 orly ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-10-25 18:10 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bodnast · 2012-10-25 19:09 I guess. I'm usually on a few smaller networks (20-80 users) and occasionally venture to freenode to play wolfbot or ICQ to laugh at everyone there ---------------------------------------------------------------------- b1naryth1ef · 2012-10-25 19:14 Not sure which part your referring too. But if its the bot system, we're working on replacing the Pengbot/Warbot systems on Quakenet for the Q3 mod Urban Terror. I'm not the original coder/writer for either, but I've had to maintain and patch both of them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tobsn · 2012-10-25 20:16 No. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- m1ss1ontomars2k4 · 2012-10-25 22:44 We started using IRC recently (as in less than 10 years ago, probably even less than 5) because it's an easy way to group chat. With AIM (which is what we were using before) or Gchat, someone has to be responsible for creating a new group chat every day, and then they have to invite everyone in. AIM slightly improves this by having named channels, but you don't get any kind of control over who joins or anything. IRC just works better. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Holoscope · 2012-10-25 23:08 I'm on a rather active channel, but it's kept secret. (hidden) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- austindkelly · 2012-10-25 23:12 You know anything about monstertickets/monsterirc ? and how to get them to interact? know any other good irc bots that cross over with bukkit servers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- phyzome · 2012-10-25 23:39 Nope. I don't know how many purely social channels remain, but tech channels are going strong. #clojure, #jquery, and #tails are very active channels, which is probably quite representative. I stay in a social channel for the CS department of my university and in foonetic's #geohashing, but those are also existing communities. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pteraspidomorphi · 2012-10-26 01:47 I have an active IRC channel on Rizon where we organize retro or niche multiplayer game sessions like worms armageddon, age of empires 2 and so on. PM me if you're interested in dropping by (I'd rather not spam here). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alllie · 2012-10-28 23:31 Efnet: Rule of the psycho techies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alllie · 2012-10-28 23:31 Seems there are fewer and fewer servers in the US, at least ones that can get to Europe etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alllie · 2012-10-28 23:31 Warez. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pooh_Bear · 2012-10-30 19:25 I'm in a few very active social channels. Try some of the ones on snoonet, or the xkcd room is also pretty lively. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I_am_Minthe · 2012-11-03 03:28 #20s on Dalnet. Our website http://tiny.cc/20s Our stats to prove that we actually do talk: :PPP http://20s.run- the.net/~serenity/20s.html Friendly people are out there ya just gotta look for us! Thats all. Best of luck. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- membersonlyguy · 2012-11-03 09:49 Besides Freenode and EFNet I still have good chats at GeekShed, Furnet, Snoonet, OFTC, p2p.net and anthrochat. I'll always love you, irc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fatuglyautist · 2012-11-05 22:31 irc.lcirc.com still has tons of people. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sentriz · 2012-11-08 22:23 MonsterIRC is perfect, I use it in #CraftCraft @ GeekShed IRC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- austindkelly · 2012-11-08 22:24 It is great, but I still cant figure out how to get the monstertickets to work in irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2012-11-13 08:05 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bolanrox · 2012-11-23 13:51 from the early 2000's at least EFNet seems to have taken a dive. it seems that only the smaller niche servers are still really popular.