Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by skocznymroczny on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:22AM (#20122368)

Chat history, ability to message people who are offline at the moment, sharing images/videos, no NickServ weird identification, no weird permission systems, no splits

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by bpye on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:38AM (#20122433)

A bouncer resolves many of these issues or you could use Matrix. It feels like dropping IRC entirely is akin to throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by lmm on Friday June 07, 2019 @04:51AM (#20122779)

> A bouncer resolves many of these issues

Then you have to pay for a server and you have to admin that.

> or you could use Matrix

Sure. I wish Matrix well, and I hope they one day reach the point where they can beat Slack or Discord on the polish front.

> It feels like dropping IRC entirely is akin to throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

What baby are you throwing out? I appreciate that these services are proprietary but there's so little lockin in practice that I struggle to care. My gang already switched from Axon to Skype to Mumble to Discord, if and when Discord becomes onerous then we'll move again. Perhaps even to IRC. But for the time being, UX matters and IRC's remains extremely poor.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? by znpy on Saturday June 08, 2019 @04:14AM (#20131253)

For chat history you might want to look at services like irccloud or host something like “thelounge” (which is awesome).

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