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[adamy]

I used to love IRC way back in the day. wasted tons of times in all sorts of various channels.

is IRC still a thing? as popular as it used to be? do you use IRC? if so, where do all the cool kids hang out nowadays?

 

[Stalk]

I literally use it only at work to chat to other devs

 

[Elitist1945]

had to look that one up. looks like command prompt lmao.

 

[RadioJoNES64]

Yeah. There's a Serebii one for example.

 

[Kyuur]

I know SpeedRunsLive uses one, with bots to automate races and stuff.

At my last job we used IRC as a backup when our actual chat client went down too.

 

[frontovik]

I used to love IRC way back in the day. wasted tons of times in all sorts of various channels.

is IRC still a thing? as popular as it used to be? do you use IRC? if so, where do all the cool kids hang out nowadays?

Pretty sure Discord has replaced it.

 

[sofa]

 

[LumpOfCole]

I used it when Opera had it built in, and then the end times came for that browser.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Truthfully, I think up until about 2 years ago, IRC was still the standard for tech-friendly people to chat, but since then Discord, Slack, Twitch, etc. have probably superceded it.

 

[CountAntonius]

Discord replaced IRC, Skype, Teamspeak and whatever else for me and my group of friends.

 

[dreams]

Yes, daily. There is a small (~20 people) group I interact with for games that primarily uses IRC (though we do also have a discord channel, it just rarely gets used).

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

GAF has one.

irc.gccafe.com

#ga

Go nuts.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

I too have great nostalgia for IRC, but Discord is where all the cool kids go now. And all the kids, really.

IRC is like the loser table now.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

My group of friends still uses it. While Discord and Facebook have largely replaced it for us, we still keep the IRC server around for...tradition, I guess? I dunno. I mean we've had it for 12 years now, so it'd be hard to imagine not having it. Although I'm one of the bigger proponents within the group of just moving to Discord full-stop, I understand there's a few conveniences IRC has that Discord (as of right now) still doesn't, so I can understand why we still have it.

 

[radios shipping overview]

I still have a few long-running channels I hang out in, but they're pretty quiet these days. I haven't got onboard with using any of the new networks for anything but work.

 

[Defuser]

Alot of GAF communities still uses IRC.

 

[DietRob]

We use to use it at work up until very recently when we switched to slack.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

The coolest of kids are still using it.

source: am coolest kids

 

[wedca]

It takes a long time for technologies that are actually good to fade away. IRC started up in 1988 (thanks wikipedia!) and its usage has been declining since the turn of the century but I think some people will probably stick with it for a long time to come.

 

[adamy]

what client do all the cool kids use nowadays?

 

[Kite]

Back when I still downloaded anime fansubs I used IRC to get the files since it was always faster than torrenting and I could get old stuff that was no longer seeded. But with streaming nowadays.. haven't used it in half a decade.

 

[besada]

We did until we moved to a different application recently.

 

[anaslexy]

I've spent so much time in mIRC back in 1997. Met my first gf there who turned out to be pretty hot. No one believed me when I said that we met online. After people found out, I literally had guys from college lined out at my house asking me to help them buy a computer, get an dial up account for them and install mIRC for them.

Oh those were the days!

 

[Purple Cheeto]

Yeah reddit has a bunch of irc channels for sports, it can be fun if chaotic at times.

 

[Blizzard]

As far as I know, it's still the pretty standard place for open-source development discussion on many different Linux-related (or even general development) projects.

For example, Unreal Engine 4 is a pretty recent thing, right? I just jumped into the Unreal Engine IRC channel and there are 200+ people idling.

 

[Jesus Carbomb]

what client do all the cool kids use nowadays?

I've moved on to ICQ

 

[FearMyWrench]

Discord definitely killed IRC in the past year for the few remaining IRC communities I was a part of.

 

[Toki767]

I was curious about this as well.

I used to use it all the time for anime talk though.

 

[Beer Monkey]

#rgvc is still out there. Not much game talk. I was an op there decades ago. #vidgames too.

 

[Lyn]

I use it regularly here as part of a gaming group. We met over 10 years ago and have relied on it ever since. It is simple, reliable, and doesn't seem to be run at the whim of a single corporation. Although it has yet to happen for us personally, I know if a server craps out, we'll easily find another and carry on as usual.

 

[jediyoshi]

Truthfully, I think up until about 2 years ago, IRC was still the standard for tech-friendly people to chat, but since then Discord, Slack, Twitch, etc. have probably superceded it.

Fun fact: Twitch chat = web based IRC

 

[SwolBro]

isn't IRC still favored for all the lolz hackers and shit?

 

[grandwizard]

Still use it for multiple gaming related groups that have used it as a general hangout for up to 10 years.

 

[Mephala]

IRC is still backup for my little chat circles but recently its moving into Discord. It was with Skype for a while.
My Chinese friends though... WeChat or bust.

 

[Volimar]

I played in online magic the gathering tourneys with apprentice and hung out in trivia and #witticisms channels waaaaayyyyyy back in the like late 90s. Good times.

/me slaps OP around a bit with a large trout.

 

[Atenhaus]

I still use it for some film photography groups.

 

[Cipherr]

I miss it to a degree. Havent used it since gamers used it during the mid to late 90s to stay connected. Those official Sega IRC channels were fucking lit. Trivia games and shit to win free first party games

I miss it so much.

 

[Strax]

Me and a group of 18 friends use it everyday and have done for the last 10 years. I'd say we wouldn't be so close if it wasn't for IRC.

 

[Squishy3]

slack killed some of my IRC channels and for some reason they're too stubborn to use discord instead even though discord is 1000x better for online gaming communities ¯\_(&#12484_/¯

 

[Woo-Fu]

IRC is the only window always open on my desktop.

Runs on anything, from anywhere, "just works". No worries about clients getting bloated or moving to an ad-revenue model.

People still use IRC today for the same reason they still use shovels today. Basic tool that gets the job done reliably.

 

[Fulminator]

I use irc to talk to Dragonball gaf

So I guess lol

 

[BlackGoku03]

It's still used for some fans in groups but it's not utilized liked it used to for them.

I mai my see it used for piracy now.

 

[akira28]

discord seems so much like irc already. and its funny how eris free net was one of the most popular hubs for a while. I thought some former irc guys might have designed this. but their focus was on voip I guess, and the text was tack-on.

 

[LowParry]

Whew. IRC. The good'ol days of FTP anime/music and role playing.

 

[Beautiful Ninja]

I am down to one IRC channel that I hang out in now, down from a dozen back in ~the day~. Some of my buddies moved on to slack, others to discord, some to G+.

 

[thetrin]

I love IRC, but I don't really use it anymore, which is kind of a shame.

Slack's functionality is really perfect for our work environment, and I discord for keeping in contact with large groups of people that I don't necessarily work with.

 

[panzone]

I've opened it right now, in its tab on Thunderbird.

 

[Dingens]

Using it daily, Although the number of channels has diminished, I don't see any incentive to switch any time soon. It's just a nice reliable way to communicate without bloat and advertisements. Also runs on literally any device ever as long as you've got an internet connection.
It's always the first software I start when I turn on the PC and the last one I close when I go to bed.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Discord is too good

 

[adamy]

is discord for gaming only or pretty much everything?

does GAF have a discord?