Is there any attempt to get irc popular again ? reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diwie · 2020-03-07 21:50 Hello, Actually when I look around there is a lot of messaging systemwhich get more and more popular. I don’t understand why IRC in the mean time, is getting more and more unpopular... Is there any try or attempt from new project to give back to IRC his letter of glory ? If you have some insight about this kind of project feel free to give their name or address! Regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LameBMX · 2020-03-07 22:34 IRC was like the dark web long before the dark web... its glory days are past. Give it up kid and enjoy what you get as a history lesson. Iirc correctly the internet went bbs -> email -> irc -> web. Since it's so d and basic it does have a lot of fun and learning available to it. Try joining and chatting on an irc chan via telnet or putty. Back in the day we used some basic app to create a 0-day ftp server. Developed and used 0 day exploits to create botnets and take down irc servers for not getting a joke. We hex edited code to avoid AV detection. We banded together to create a half mil strong botnet comprised completely of military computers of one of the world super powers. We protected a lot of computers, and manually removed other malware from our botnets to leave ours less detectable. We got security related jobs and had each other pen test. We were lumber Jack's, cashiers, metal recyclers, convenience store clerks, gangsters and random people trying to exist in the real world at real jobs. We made the impossible made possible, and then the world moved on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mrelcee · 2020-03-07 22:55 EFNet has faded a lot, and there aren’t nearly as many users or servers any more... but nets like FreeNode are going pretty strong. But yeah glory days are long gone. I hang on irc every day still... the die hards will never completely move to discord or other chat systems. I hang out with a group that has continuously been together since 1993. We probably know more about each other than spouses of members and other family.. we’ve buried a few members, some take breaks and come back occasionally but we’re still here. I will say we aren’t really seeking a return to glory and new blood.. just want our irc clients to not suck, and for them to keep on working through os updates.. Our noob has been with us 10+ years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LameBMX · 2020-03-07 23:04 If there us a server, you can always connect. If there isn't a server, pretty basic to make one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- snowice0 · 2020-03-08 00:19 nope, no attempt. Unless of course you want to consider discord. Otherwise IRC is overly complicated and not very convenient and serves no real function or use. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pengo · 2020-03-08 00:41 Maybe if someone made extensions for IRC to give emotes, profile pics, static user IDs, offline messages/logs, unicode support, and all the other stuff modern chat apps/protocols have standard, and updated IRC clients to support them, it could catch on again, though it would hardly be IRC any more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dijit · 2020-03-08 00:44 > I don’t understand why IRC in the mean time, is getting more and more unpopular... IRC is unpopular because it depends on arcane commands, a trifling of supplemental services to be effective (which are all different to interact with, think: nickserv/hostmasks) and above all stateful connections to a central server.. People are now used to being perpetually connected (solved in IRC with bouncers), retreiving backlog or getting notified when mentioned. IRC by itself doesn't solve this. People are also used to sharing pictures and reacting to messages, IRC doesn't do that either (despite it being possible in your client, probably). The fact is, it's not "sexy" and it doesn't have a well financed company backing it. So discord/slack and ilk get all the talented development despite IRC doing 90% of what those systems can do (and not controlled/monitored/logged/gatekept by a single company). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nostril_extension · 2020-03-08 00:55 Matrix kinda took over and serves a lot of simar use cases and can even connect to irc channels! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- clon3man · 2020-03-08 01:23 Even if it made a real comeback would you care? Even \_just\_ a year past prime most regular people had given it up for Instant Messaging. It's nearly impossible to connect meaningfully with people on it. Getting people do anything off-platform with IRC friends is an exercise in futility (e.g. gaming, voice chat, advanced troubleshooting or collaboration of any kind). The people on there are called idlers for a reason - they mostly don't participate except to banter every now and again. While it still has its purpose as a quick way to find people to do talk about specific subjects -- the "social connection" aspect of it is highly overrated. There's also a lot of "fragmentation" of people's attention. Half the planet is watching youtube on their off-hours and already using "chat" in their workplace... this leaves very little room for after-hours "IRC" (even the majority of IRCers are just technical people who have spare time at work) Best we can hope for are better social media websites in the future that more closely align with people's needs. Outside of stupid shallow needs like dating and sharing pictures. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Talkinboutfootball · 2020-03-08 02:00 Discord really ---------------------------------------------------------------------- onebts · 2020-03-08 03:50 I often wonder the same thing. I used dalnet a LOT starting back in early 1995. I was dismayed when they were hacked around year 2000 and never really came back. How can we get more people using IRC? Irccloud for android is great for staying online and switching between phone and computer. Long love IRC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diwie · 2020-03-08 07:45 Hello IMO I can’t consider discord, in fact discord separate unknown people (namespace domain), IRC wasn’t (you could meet/discuss with anyone from anywhere) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diwie · 2020-03-08 08:30 IRC solve a big problem : meet unknown people. Which current application encourage this ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- buovjaga · 2020-03-08 09:10 Yes, for example [https://irc.com/](https://irc.com/) Latest update from last month: [https://irc.com/blog/development- updates](https://irc.com/blog/development-updates) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diwie · 2020-03-08 09:27 IRC servers still alive should consider to merge between them .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NMJ87 · 2020-03-08 09:30 None with any people that you want to meet, or at least, none that I want to meet, I'm getting very impatient with folks outside of IRC communities. It's probably my fault, but I also feel like the rug is moving underneath my feet. It seems that people who are willing to exert the (tiny) amount of effort required to connect to IRC networks are just a bit older, and easier for me to get along with. Anyway, discord and slack seem to be the popular alternatives. There are websites that are dedicated to finding specific communities within those platforms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Equinoxdawg · 2020-03-08 09:50 Not quite. That blog post was actually from April last year. I'm guessing restructuring of the site reset the posted date. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diwie · 2020-03-08 11:18 Nice front end application compliant with irc protocol should permit any kid to join ... like discord or slack does ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NMJ87 · 2020-03-08 17:45 It requires .0001% more effort and their friends are not there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- livejamie · 2020-03-08 18:46 You could argue that's what Slack and Discord do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- vascocosta · 2020-03-10 15:04 I personally don't think there's a point in making it popular again. I use it everyday for the past 23 years and what keeps me there is the same thing that brought me there. I like its minimalist approach and the tech savvy people that use it. In a way, I find IRC to be better than ever, as the concentration of nerds/geeks is now higher as most everyone else left. I don't like IRC for its amazingly easy to use social tools, because that's not what it is. I like IRC because I like talking with people with a similar technical mindset. Just like I find it logical for people to like Discord if they're into gaming, etc. That said, one can always argue I could talk with even more people like that if it was popular again, but then again, is it really a good thing to have a huge community instead of a few smaller ones? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eskimo_dev · 2020-03-10 16:59 IRC is becoming more and more irrelevant because it is now a haven for sjw's and bernie supporters. IRCv3 is literally a meme as well as [IRC.com](https://IRC.com). IRC isn't supposed to be big, and have normal people on it; so people like IRCv3 trying to turn it into Slack/Discord are just ruining it while they believe they're making it better. Granted, some IRCv3 extensions are nice, but most of them are pointless. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diwie · 2020-03-13 08:22 I understand your point of vue, but current evolution predict that your current irc will die one day, who will keep and maintain an IRC’s for 80 people ? It’s important to renew user database, without necessarily increase amount of people by 5.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- vascocosta · 2020-03-13 10:45 I also understand your point of view, it makes sense. I still don't think a resurgence in IRC should compete with social media sites/apps, it's a lost battle. Maybe there are ways to attract new people which don't necessarily try to make IRC look as a better alternative. Perhaps we should focus on what makes IRC unique and try to reach people similar to the ones already there. I honestly don't see it working for people in general. I wish I was wrong though and I'm sorry if I looked a bit negative on my previous post. Actually, I thought about similar initiatives in the past myself, but eventually gave up. It's nice to see that people still share the desire to try and save it. I'll try to come up with some ideas. If you happen to be connected to Quakenet, I use the nick gluon and I keep a reasonably healthy and active channel there where I've gathered people from all over the world through the years, called #geeks. When I started this community circa 2010 the goal was to revive IRC into its golden age. We still have conversations about that, so feel free to join. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- miseeker · 2020-03-24 01:24 Hey I was on dal then. Met my wife there. Still married. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- acidvegas · 2020-03-26 14:09 [irc.supernets.org](https://irc.supernets.org) \#superbowl is probably the most hype IRC network you are going to find. It saved my marriage! :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- onebts · 2020-04-02 02:25 Nice. Do you still chat with her there from across the room? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- miseeker · 2020-04-02 05:43 We did for a couple years. The channel we went to had close to a hundred regulars. Lots of fun. The net we used got hacked and we drifted away. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- onebts · 2020-04-02 06:41 The server I used shut down as well. Caris.dal.net fond memories..... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lorderikstark0 · 2020-04-02 19:46 Reddit ?? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diwie · 2020-04-04 11:29 If you post this answer I guess you never try irc :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- borksandwich · 2020-04-09 04:54 Hahahahahaha. Efnet troll. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2020-04-21 18:43 [removed] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- acidvegas · 2020-04-21 18:43 shut the fuck up ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2020-04-21 18:49 [removed] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sy029 · 2020-04-23 14:08 The problem is that the other alternatives (slack, discord) are prettier and easier to set up. IRC is text only and feature less. Kids these days want to share their memes and gifs all over the place. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Popping_Vegas · 2021-11-09 22:09 Old school as it gets. Those were the days. 😎 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Doujin_hikikomori · 2022-09-06 07:51 100% agree. I’m relatively young (22) and I’ve been into irc ever since my high school teacher got me into it when I was 18 my senior year. Still looking for a home server where people are chill and just smoke weed, do some gaming and code but by far the best and most interesting chatting I’ve done so far has been on irc. Glad to be a part of the community.