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Re:Ask YC: Which IRC Channel(s) Do You Frequent? by aparticularpath on Friday August 08, 2008 @02:59PM (#270896)
Interesting... I don't spend any time in IRC Channels. I find them distracting. But it's cool that some people have gotten a job or two out of a Channel.
Re:Ask YC: Which IRC Channel(s) Do You Frequent? by wheels on Friday August 08, 2008 @09:37PM (#271246)
They're still a mainstay of open source projects. I remember when I first logged back into one circa 2000 and thought "Wait, people still use IRC?" Eight years later I'm still using Freenode; #startups is a nice extension of the news.YC community.