Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by prophesi on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:53PM (#20119044)

Freenode is still pretty active. I self-host an instance of The Lounge[0], which basically acts like an IRC bouncer + an account system to easily get friends/coworkers to use IRC.

I primarily use it for giving/getting help on technologies and open-source projects that I'm using.

[0] https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by _wmd on Thursday June 06, 2019 @05:37PM (#20119506)

While Freenode may not compete with Facebook, it's still pretty huge :)

    There are 99 users and 84066 invisible on 32 servers
    36 IRC Operators online
    16 unknown connection(s)
    53438 channels formed 
    I have 5185 clients and 1 servers
    5185 5972 Current local users 5185, max 5972
    84165 94773 Current global users 84165, max 94773
    Highest connection count: 5973 (5972 clients) (476397 connections received)

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by leetbulb on Thursday June 06, 2019 @07:47PM (#20120347)

I've been using The Lounge for a while now. It's honestly great. Being able to access it over VPN while on mobile is a nice bonus.

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