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A comment on Ask HN: Do you still use IRC?.

Re:Ask HN: Do you still use IRC? by askafriend on Monday June 06, 2016 @01:16PM (#11848397)
We use Slack at work and I use Facebook Messenger and iMessage for everything else.

Sometimes I'll watch illicit NBA streams where there will be a chat next to the video and I'll shitpost in there.

Most "channel" type discussion is best done in subreddits or places like HN rather than real-time chat. At least in my experience. I wasn't around during the heyday of IRC though so I have a bit of a different perspective.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use IRC? by wingerlang on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @06:17AM (#11853488)
> Most "channel" type discussion is best done in subreddits or places like HN rather than real-time chat.

I wasn't around it as well, but I feel the types of discussions you get on reddit/HN is extremely different from irc/slack.

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