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Anyone uses IRC? Why? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/learn_programming@programming.dev
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I was exploring an obscure Linux distro when I noticed they're contact page had an IRC client. You can connect to the IRC via Matrix, but the people there prefer pure IRC.

My question is do other programmers use IRC? Also why?

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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

IRC is great but I think discord recreates a lot of the functionality with a "web 2.0" or whatever feel that newer internet users are used to and more comfortable with. I like IRC but it was the dominant chat protocol when I was growing up. I like bulletin board style forums too. Things move on and not always for the better.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Man I grew up in the age of forums, and I never got the hang of em. Just felt like the design goals were wasted negative space and the purposeful inability to know who is responding to whom.

    There's a lot of forum fans, so there must be some appeal, but fuck me if I can ascertain what that might be.

    I never did any IRC, though I wonder if I'd known it at the time if I might've gotten into it.

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