How to get "into" IRC
reddit / irc

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CodeGlitch · 2018-06-23 20:26

Hello to the fine people of r/irc. Over the last 20 years I've tried
to get "into" IRC, and by that I mean find a channel which interests
me, and is active with plenty of people.  I think I must be choosing
the wrong channels, or expecting the wrong thing with IRC, as I always
get bored pretty quickly due to the lack of interesting chat on the
various channels I subscribe to (usual tech/programming/networking
related stuff).  I then give up and forget about IRC for a few years
until I get the itch to try again.

Am I expecting too much from IRC?  I don't have any IRL friends that
would use IRC, so I'm stuck in that regard.

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ahandle · 2018-06-23 20:35

/join ##irc

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frumious · 2018-06-24 18:57

For me, these things have been key to forming lasting connections with
IRC:

1) having a shared topic in which I have deep interest

2) once in a while having some higher bandwidth comms
(voice/video/photos)

3) not being a dick, actually answering questions, having
conversations in good faith, not trying to one-up or "win points".

4) initiating conversation when there's no activity and engaging those
that do the same.

Even with all that, there's only a few channels where I have any
success and only a few of them are public.