Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
by floatingatoll on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:30AM
(#20122401)
I used IRC from 1992 to 2019, and was gradually pushed away from IRC by years of harassment from anonymous/registered accounts. It turns out that IRC's anonymity is incompatible with harassment swarming behaviors. I'm sad to see it fail as a social platform, but I won't miss it.
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Any vaguely modern IRC server runs nameserv and allows you to block unregistered nicks from channels. It's not by any means a solved problem but it's a good stopgap against spam floods and the like.
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
by floatingatoll on Friday June 07, 2019 @08:01AM
(#20123647)
Yes, that was available, and didn’t help. But I appreciate the thought.
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
by dustfinger on Friday June 07, 2019 @04:59AM
(#20122824)
That is disappointing to hear. I have only been using IRC regularly since 2005. I have never been harassed, but I only spend time on tech channels such as #emacs, #python, #gentoo etc.