Starman wrote to Ogg <=-

Re: Re: IRC, the good, the bad, the alternatives
By: Ogg to All on Wed Sep 09 2020 18:03:00

That was brutal. Perhaps it made sense when a group of people
could coordinate a meet-up on IRC at a specific time. But it
was hit'n'miss for me.

Rheingold's book on virtual communities (available online free these
days) talks about IRC in one chapter. In the (mid?) '90s that he writes about, idling with bouncers and the like was the exception, not the
norm. People were online for a limited period of time, and there to
talk. It was purely real-time communication, not the horrible stripped-down forum/mailing list thing people use it as these days.

Same with social MOOs and stuff. All the real-time socializing and
RPing has been basically supplanted by Telegram and so on, obviating, rather ironically, the need to be online for any length of time to participate.

Starman, do you use IRC these days?

Daniel Traechin

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Re: Re: IRC, the good, the ba
By: calcmandan to Starman on Sat Sep 12 2020 07:13:00

Starman, do you use IRC these days?

Not daily, no. I sometimes pop into the Tildeverse IRC servers, and I occasionally am on EFnet.

A big part of it is that as I've gotten older, there are fewer and fewer things I'm *that* interested in that I want to read/participate in mindless small talk about it over and over again. When I was younger I used to be in a couple of game- and book- (or author-) related channels. Nowadays, even if the channels were still there and had people in 'em, I just can't muster the enthusiasm.

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