Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by NuSkooler on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:51PM (#20119029)

Yes, lots of people. Discord has become popular, but not enough & there are often bridge-bots running. I imagine Slack is in a similar boat.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by ryeguy_24 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:59PM (#20119117)

I haven't gotten into Discord yet. Isn't it a pain that there are so many Discord servers and you can't just have one server with all the channels (ala Freenode)?

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:02PM (#20127638)

Not at all!

It is normal to be connected to multiple servers at once, and the UI makes it easy to keep track of them.

As the other commenter said, it is much better to think of each server as a channel. A Discord server is typically dedicated to a single topic or organization. My old World of Warcraft guild has a Discord server. On that server, you'll have separate channels for general chat, announcements, and several voice channels for groups.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by nroah on Thursday June 06, 2019 @05:02PM (#20119155)

You have to see Discord servers as if they were IRC channels, and Discord channels as if they were conversation threads.

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