Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification

Re:Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Ver... by sotojuan on Monday September 05, 2016 @05:55PM (#12432426)

Everywhere as in...? IRC isn't going anywhere for sure, I use it (prefer it to Slack), but its usage has diminished greatly to very niche groups such as anime subtitling communities and programming languages/techs. Of the latter, many are either moving to Slack or also have a Slack with more people on it. I also hear less and less developers using or talking about IRC in general.

Elixir (language), Ember (JavaScript framework), Elm (language) all have more active Slacks than IRCs. Facebook's React moved from Slack to Discord, and the community has never cared for or used their IRC channel.

There's still fairly active IRCs like the JavaScript, Go, Clojure (I think), and the Node ones, but they're becoming the exception.

I think IRC is popular in your group of developers and interests, but for many people it's somehow considered ancient. On an interview I once mentioned IRC and the interviewer (in his 40s) was surprised it was still a thing.

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Re:Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Ver... by qwertyuiop924 on Monday September 05, 2016 @07:22PM (#12432747)

shrugs

Then again, look at the stacks you're looking at: they're all relatively new, and most of them are frontend, and thus more likely to jump on the new shiny. ##c on freenode has >1k users as I write this. Although that's probably also an outlier.

Personally, I'm hoping that Matrix becomes the new standard, if we ever get one beyond IRC. IRC is showing its age, and Matrix seems to be the most practical and levelheaded group doing work on the problem.

As for Slack, I'm pretty lukewarm on it, and kinda prefer IRC.

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Re:Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Ver... by sotojuan on Monday September 05, 2016 @07:49PM (#12432858)

I stand corrected! See my reply to the sibling comment.

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Re:Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Ver... by qwertyuiop924 on Monday September 05, 2016 @09:38PM (#12433175)

Yeah, that's the kind of distribution I was expecting. I'm glad sibling could get some hard data on it, though.

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